[172048] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Large DDoS, small extortion
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roland Dobbins)
Thu May 22 11:53:33 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@arbor.net>
In-Reply-To: <CFA37AA0.D24F9%jason_livingood@cable.comcast.com>
Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 22:50:16 +0700
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On May 22, 2014, at 10:23 PM, Livingood, Jason =
<Jason_Livingood@cable.comcast.com> wrote:
> He actually said negotiation is always useful and sometimes paying a =
ransom demand can serve as a method to track where the money goes, to =
identify all the actors involved for later action (which may apply in =
this case).
Bad advice for online stuff, as a) it's very, very rare that the =
perpetrators are caught, and b) word will get around that you're an easy =
mark - so, more attacks, more (and more expensive) extortion.
*Never* pay extortion money to a DDoSer.
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