H Fastmail προειδοποιεί σήμερα τους χρήστες της στο Blog της ότι, υπάρχει ενδεχόμενο η DDoS επίθεση εναντίων της να συνεχιστεί και αυτή ητν εβδteam.
We read from its announcement:
On Sunday 8 November 2015, around 1: 08 UTC, the FastMail was hit by a DDoS attack that resulted in some services not being available before the mitigation strategy was triggered to prevent the attack. A second attack followed 9 Monday, 2015 around 00: 34 UTC. These attacks were accompanied by an extortion request that threatened further attacks this week if we had not paid the 20 Bitcoin attacker (about US $ 7.500).
First of all, we would like to clarify one thing. We are not responding to blackmail attempts, and we will not pay these criminals under any circumstances. We have dealt with DDoS attacks in the past, and have recently strengthened our defenses against such issues. However, there is still a chance that the attacks will cause some disruption to our users, so we publish this as warning to get as much information as possible about what to expect.
The announcement continues with a technical analysis of what a DDoS attack is and points out that all major Companies electronics post officey have been victims of extortion in recent days, including Runbox, Zoho, HushMail and Protonmail
The text makes a reference to which government departments they have addressed by asking for legal cover and protection and finally asks their clients to show patience and understanding
