Last month before the Chinese New Year, a financial website client kept pointing his domain name to different IP addresses every day. UDomain noticed this abnormal behavior and took initiatives to understand his situation:
His website suffered a mild
cyber-attack and received the hacker’s email, demanding a ransom of “
10 Bitcoin (approximately HK$30,000) for a once-and-for-all settlement”; otherwise, a full-scale attack would be launched in the Chinese New Year, and would predictably destroy the database in 3 days.
UDomain immediately changed the website’s name server for better protection. The hacker followed this lead and sent an email to client and us directly, stating he/she was all prepared to take down the site. Our experts further discussed with the client, all data was transferred to a safe location at the end, and the attack was avoided.
In fact, similar cyber blackmailing cases are happening all over the world (especially in Europe, US and China). This rampant trend targets SMEs’ websites, and even public sectors, banks and trading exchange centers. A question always remains:
If one agrees to a hacker’s demand, will it draws another round of attack, or attacks from other hackers? Corporations can think twice before act.
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