Blackmailer is the threat of cyber-attack – want to be paid in Bitcoins – Örebro Tribune

Right now a campaign is taking place in Sweden and in several other countries where a player sends utpressningsmejl to companies and businesses. You have sent the threat of a denial of service. Banks and state-owned organisations in Sweden have been affected by this.

the Actor, who calls himself NewWorldHacker threatens with a sharp denial of service, Distributed Denial of Service DDoS if not 1.4 million Bitcoins will be paid within a couple of days to the group.

According to the information received so threatening that even the attack all the computers on the network with Cerber, which is a type of malicious code of ransomware that encrypts files on the affected system and then require a sum of money to unlock the files.

the Approach previously used
the Operator reuses an approach that has been used in the past by other actors. In these cases, called actors, inter alia, for DD4BC and the Armada Collective. In the latter case, conducted an international operation co-ordinated via Europol, where multiple perpetrators were arrested in January 2016.

at Least one of the affected organisations in Sweden, has currently been reported to the police and dealing going on in that particular case.

How to act

What do you do if you are being blackmailed?

1. Pay never a bleeder.
2. Polisanmäl it occurred. Save the technical information, e-mail and other messages, Bitcoin addresses, etc. This is done in order that the police can get to some of these in electronic form.

National it-cybercrime centre – SC3, are happy to receive all the information with the operator, NewWorldHacker. Especially interesting is information about the activity that is linked to the utpressningsbreven, that is to say, if the operator performs a denial of service.
Source Police