Spooks, plod and security industry join to chase bank hacker

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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/28/irate_security_posse_intel_spooks_in_ddos_hushed_hacker_hunt/

By Darren Pauli
The Register
28 Aug 2015

A group of security boffins have joined police and intelligence spooks in 
a clandestine mission to identify those behind distributed denial of 
service (DDoS) extortion attacks against major banks.

An attacker using the handle DD4BC (DDoS for Bitcoins) is launching large 
DDoS attacks against banks and other big business in the UK, Europe, the 
US, and Australia and New Zealand demanding Bitcoin payment for the 
assaults to end.

The details of the secretive group, which boasts skills in actor 
attribution, are being kept under wraps to avoid tipping off the criminal 
who is thought to be a lone wolf.

Its work, says Roland Dobbins of Arbor Network's security engineering and 
response team, will likely precipitate an official intelligence 
investigation should the extortionist continue to launch DDoS attacks 
against big banks.

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