Security News Empty email threats reap payoff for Armada Collective By Greg Masters Publish Date April 26, 2016 Emails sent to businesses demanding payment to avoid a DDoS attack were enough to spur some to pay off, even though no attacks resulted.
Cybercrime Hackers threaten South Korean banks with DDoS attacks following record ransomware payment By Bradley Barth Publish Date June 27, 2017 The Armada Collective hacking group has issued a $315,000 ransom demand to seven South Korean banks, after threatening to launch distributed denial of service attacks against each of their organizations.