THELOGICALINDIAN - In Athens three Greek banks accept been extorted by awful hackers for the sum of 15000 Euros to be paid in Bitcoin by November 30 2024 The accumulation Armada Collective threatened these institutions with the use of a Denial of Service advance or a DDOS With a warningto the banks the perpetrators acutely were able to beating out cyberbanking casework temporarily
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The Bank of Greece told the press it was a “serious threat” as they appear adverse initiatives would be deployed. eKathimerini.com was the aboriginal to breach this adventure with a few statements from the Greek banks told to Kerin Hope advertisement from Athens. The banks explained that for a abrupt aeon on Thursday, November 26 the organization’s online conveniences went offline. There accept been some dispatches claiming that an beforehand advance took abode on Monday admitting sources are unconfirmed. A Greek cyberbanking adumbrative told press:
The Armada Collective is a assemblage of online hackers who are application cyber attacks to blackmail businesses and accept been allegedly assaulting countries like Switzerland and Thailand as well. Armada is ambitious ample sums of Bitcoin from these companies or abroad they will acutely attenuate their systems with DDOS attacks. A bribe letter aggregate by the Swiss government’s CERT reveals what these attackers want, “All your servers will be DDoS-ed starting Friday if you don’t pay 20 Bitcoins to this abode — When we say all, we beggarly all — users will not be able to admission sites host with you at all.” The Armada Collective is doubtable of advancing ProtonMail and four Thailand cyberbanking institutions as well. All of these incursions happened with almost the aforementioned threat; pay the Bitcoin or else. The groups email states, “If you don’t pay by Friday, an advance will start, amount to stop will access to 40 Bitcoin and will go up 20 Bitcoin for every day of the attack. If you address this to media and try to get some chargeless publicity by application our name, instead of paying, the advance will alpha assuredly and will aftermost for a continued time. This is not a joke.” Despite the blackmail it seems some bodies had no botheration advertisement these DDOS attempts to the media.
Greek Banks are demography adverse activity adjoin these cyber threats and basic a accumulation to action this issue. The National Intelligence Service (EYP), the Financial Crimes Squad (SDOE) in accordance with the Bank of Greece and added victims will host a aggregation of experts from their institutions. The broker advertisement these crimes said the hackers were able to accommodation the affiliation requests. However, they did not admission barter funds or information. Banking associations are claiming these attacks accept been aggressive to their organizations. Bitcoin companies, account publications, and encrypted email servers accept all accustomed extortion letters. Providers like Kraken, Hushmail, Runbox and others accept all banned to pay these ransoms, clashing ProtonMail.
The acceptance of application the DDOS advance seems to be growing berserk and not alone festering in the banking industry but through added aspects of the web as able-bodied as a anatomy of protest. The latest beachcomber of ransom attempts advancing to Australia, Switzerland, the U.K., and now Greece shows there are affluence of bodies attractive to blackmail although it doesn’t attending as admitting it’s advantageous off for these assailants. Besides the digital currency companies, best of these victims don’t alike access Bitcoin and attractive for them to access it for extortion comes off as a alpine order. However, if businesses like ProtonMail pay the piper, some hackers do accomplish off.
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