UrOnlineBiz.com black mailed!

UrOnlineBiz blackmailed!
August 19, 2008
On Saturday the 16th of August UrOnlineBiz recieved blackmail from a person demanding money or he would perform a DoS attack on our servers. Two other emails just like this came on Sunday. At the same time the server started getting attacked and it continued throughout Monday and is still going on as I am writing this article. We contacted several other PTC sites that seemed to have problems and some of them confirmed that they were under attack too. So far no one has given in to the blackmailers demands and the attacks grows stronger.
UrOnlineBiz and UrOnlineBux contacted the police and Interpol last night and this morning we talked to the person in charge of the investigation. All black mail has been sent to the police and they are now tracing it to see if they can find the responsible person.
What is a DoS attack?

From wikipedia:
"A denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) or distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS attack) is an attempt to make a computer resource unavailable to its intended users. Although the means to carry out, motives for, and targets of a DoS attack may vary, it generally consists of the concerted, malevolent efforts of a person or persons to prevent an Internet site or service from functioning efficiently or at all, temporarily or indefinitely. Perpetrators of DoS attacks typically target sites or services hosted on high-profile web servers such as banks, credit card payment gateways, and even DNS root servers.
One common method of attack involves saturating the target (victim) machine with external communications requests, such that it cannot respond to legitimate traffic, or responds so slowly as to be rendered effectively unavailable. In general terms, DoS attacks are implemented by either forcing the targeted computer(s) to reset, or consume its resources so that it can no longer provide its intended service or obstructing the communication media between the intended users and the victim so that they can no longer communicate adequately.
Denial-of-service attacks are considered violations of the IAB's Internet proper use policy. They also commonly constitute violations of the laws of individual nations."


Should any PTC site that are being black mailed give in to the demands it will mean the end of a lot of PTC sites since a black mailer will not stop once he gets paid, but continue.
If your site is under attack too then contact us send copies of any black mail and we will forward them to the police and the investigators.