Tech Startups Are Targets of Ransom Cyberattacks

A great way to push policies and technologies towards a more regulated Internet.<p>I might have my tinfoil hat on here but without any doubt we need to make away with all the centralization because that&#x27;s what is the problem, really.<p>Aggressive push towards distributed services - think bittorrent&#x2F;sync and bitcoin&#x2F;blockchain technology as the solution to distributed network attacks.<p>Challenge accepted?

I was speaking to someone in the esports industry yesterday who said that DDoS attacks have become a real problem in high tier tournaments. Apparently you can get a bot net which is more than capable of blowing out the whole opposing team for as low as $100.

heh...basecamp, meetup, vimeo, and bit.ly are &#x27;small&#x27;.<p>Are there any documented instances of this happening to smaller startups? And, relatedly, are a set of best practices emerging to deal with this sort of a thing?

This stuff have been taking place in the Russian segment of the internet for several years and create a quite profitable business of DDoS protection.

&quot;Even after the attack was mitigated, the attacker continued to send increasingly whiny emails.&quot;<p>What whiny emails did they send?

Incidentally, I recently noticed that Digital Ocean was also under attack and our servers were real slow for quite a few days, and i was wondering if Amazon&#x2F;GoDaddy had anything to do with it :)