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Lumen Black Lotus Labs™ issues blog detailing the results of research into the reemergence of Ransom DDoS attacks
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DENVER, Jan. 21, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Black Lotus Labs™, the threat intelligence arm of Lumen Technologies (NYSE: LUMN), today released a blog that details the team s research into the recent increase in Ransom Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)
attacks.
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Since the second half of 2020, Black Lotus Labs has observed a disturbing number of entities receiving emails containing the threat of a sustained DDoS attack unless a Bitcoin ransom was paid. The team has observed RDDoS activity before, dating as far back as 2016, but the recent campaigns have been greater in number and duration. In addition, today s group of cybercriminals often perform a limited attack to prove their capability and malicious intent.