Attack on Spanish-Language News Site is Abandoned When Traffic Routes to Prolexic
Attack on Spanish-Language News Site is Abandoned When Traffic Routes to Prolexic
2 PagesA high-profile Spanish-language news website with 15 million visits and 58 million page views per month became the target of a devastating DDoS distributed denial of service attack. Some DDoS attackers in Russia had noticed the site and began sending extortion e-mails and making threatening comments on the website’s blogs two months prior to launching a denial of service attack. They demanded “150 bitcoins” or the equivalent of US$2,500 or e
