A new trend in extorting money from sports and gambling Web sites isn’t going away like security experts had predicted. Online gambling Web sites began receiving e-mail threats in October of last year. The messages contained demands for money to prevent distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that would shut down the targeted Web site. Internet security experts urged caution. They theorized that the threats would reach a peak with the Super Bowl game and then fade away. They didn’t.
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Global Extortion: Online Gambling and Organized Hacking
Posted by: Jack M. Germain March 23, 2004 06:30 AMA new trend in extorting money from sports and gambling Web sites isn’t going away like security experts had predicted. Online gambling Web sites began receiving e-mail threats in October of last year. The messages contained demands for money to prevent distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that would shut down the targeted Web site. Internet security experts urged caution. They theorized that the threats would reach a peak with the Super Bowl game and then fade away. They didn’t.