Cybercriminals Threaten Companies Around the Globe with DDoS Attacks
Various website and cybersecurity administrators received emails over the past few days demanding that they pay one-fifth of a Bitcoin (currently about $780) in exchange for not facing a Distributed Denial of Service attack that would make their sites inaccessible to the public.
To learn more, please see my Inc. article, Cybercriminals Threaten Companies Around the Globe with DDoS Attacks.