Hardware/Network
Ransomware and DDoS combine to form a dangerous new two-pronged cyber attack
Reported by information-age.com
Criminal developers have created a new evil way to monetise their operations by adding a DDoS component to ransomware payloads. The malicious new double-barrelled ransomware was discovered by security firm Invincea. Instead of ‘just’ encrypting data files on a workstation (plus any network drive it can find) and locking the machine, a new variant of the Cerber ransomware is now adding a DDoS bot that can quietly blast spoofed network traffic at various IPs.
