With some members of the so-called Armada Collective in jail, another actor has decided to co-opt their technique of sending threatening DDoS extortion messages to businesses worldwide.
Only difference is, this group isn’t following through with its threat, and it’s still collecting serious money.
A blog post from CloudFlare CEO Matthew Prince says that the group has pocketed more than $100,000 without throwing a punch in anger.
“To date, we’ve not seen a single attack launched against a threatened organization. This is in spite of nearly all of the threatened organizations we’re aware of not paying the extortion fee,” Prince said.
“We’ve compared notes with fellow DDoS mitigation vendors and none of them have seen any attacks launched since March against organizations that have received Armada Collective threats.”
