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A modified version of the DDoSing persists. We are developing a solution to this.

Good to hear - sounds like its a very persistent attack. I hope that they are not trying to bribe SD to get back online. If you don't give in to them and adapt to the threats quickly enough hopefully they will eventually get bored and move onto a weaker target.

Dont know if this bribe is true or not but let say it is true, your site will be get ddos attacked from them and this will take some time to recover from it though. And btw what do you mean by weaker target? Dont you think moneypot is weaker? What do they get from weaker target? Nothing i suppose, better to hit on some huge site with good traffic so there will be possibility they will pay the ransom

I meant a target which is more likely to pay than a smaller site. Depends upon how tech savvy the target is. For example a large retail site which doesn't specialise in tech / or a site that has weak hosts and no way of defending against a DDoS will be more likely to pay.

Nobody should never pay this kind of ransom, because they will be encouraged to do this again and again...
Just use better filters to avoid DDOS attack

That's true man, if the extortionist will get paid what they asked for then they'll definitely try to extort it again. it's better to just upgrade the security.

Completely agree, those guys running the DDoS are criminals and need to be locked up - targeting legitimate businesses for pure extortion, trouble is its really difficult to even know which country they are operating from let alone getting proof and law enforcement involved.