On 5/22/14, 12:51 AM, "Beleaguered Admin" <[email protected]> wrote:
>This has been going on for a long time -- almost every detail is >exactly the same as what is described here: >http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/03/meetup-suffering-significant-ddos-attack- >taking-it-offline-for-days/ > >He is in regular communication (via whois info and other collected >contact data) asking for <$1000 USD sums to stop the attacks. That article said that the company didn¹t want to negotiate with criminals. As an aside I spent some time with a retired hostage negotiator on Tuesday (which was fascinating BTW). He actually said negotiation is always useful and sometimes paying a ransom demand can serve as a method to track where the money goes, to identify all the actors involved for later action (which may apply in this case). And sometimes financial demands are dropped as a result of negotiation. >Is it worth talking to law enforcement? Some of these have been >500k >costs to the customer, but we assume the person doing it isn't in any >western country, so maybe it doesn't even matter? You may find the law enforcement more interested in engaging within you than you might think. Jason
