[AusNOG] ATTENTION: Ransom request!!!

Keith Anderson keitha at apcs.com.au
Sun Jul 10 11:21:28 EST 2016


Hi All,

Well the time came and went, was as disappointing as Y2K, a non event.

Have a good weekend all, whats left of it….

ThanksKeith

apcs
Keith Anderson l Managing Director
AUS Mobile. +61 400 947 947 Fax.  1300 7654 27
PNG Phone. +675 303 1236  Mobile. +675 76 947 947   Fax. +675 325 9066
Email. keitha at apcs.com.au <mailto:keitha at apcs.com.au> l Web. www.apcs.com.au <http://apcs.com.au/>





> On 9 Jul 2016, at 1:55 AM, Luca Salvatore <luca at digitalocean.com> wrote:
> 
> They are fake... nothing ever happens.  We've had a bunch of threats from them and it never eventuates into anything.
> 
> On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 9:21 AM, A <clonemeagain at gmail.com <mailto:clonemeagain at gmail.com>> wrote:
> Cloudflare have an interesting article on it: https://blog.cloudflare.com/empty-ddos-threats-meet-the-armada-collective/ <https://blog.cloudflare.com/empty-ddos-threats-meet-the-armada-collective/>
> On 8 Jul 2016 11:15 pm, "Keith Anderson" <keitha at apcs.com.au <mailto:keitha at apcs.com.au>> wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Glad we have DoS filtering in place, hope it works.
> 
> received this one yesterday.
> 
> Have a good weekend all, 
> 
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> Received: from removed [x.x.x.x])
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> Received: from ks3293195.kimsufi.com <http://ks3293195.kimsufi.com/> (ks3293195.kimsufi.com <http://ks3293195.kimsufi.com/> [5.135.186.134]) by filter1-removed with ESMTP id zxmM3rWeIgLfLFeL for <Removed>; Thu, 07 Jul 2016 05:04:02 +0000 (GMT)
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> From: Armada Collective <armada.collective at gmail.com <mailto:armada.collective at gmail.com>>
> To: <sysadmin at r <mailto:sysadmin at datec.net.pg>emoved>
> Subject: ATTENTION: Ransom request!!!
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> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Armada Collective [mailto:armada.collective at gmail.com <mailto:armada.collective at gmail.com>] 
> Sent: Thursday, 7 July 2016 3:05 PM
> To: Removed
> Subject: ATTENTION: Ransom request!!!
> 
> FORWARD THIS MAIL TO WHOEVER IS IMPORTANT IN YOUR COMPANY AND CAN MAKE DECISION!
> 
> We are Armada Collective.
> 
> All your servers will be DDoS-ed starting Saturday (Jul 9 2016) if you don't pay 5 Bitcoins @ 14T7TxDxhhpYtgNgrK1hpe4UsfULZDhFoC
> 
> When we say all, we mean all - users will not be able to access sites host with you at all.
> 
> Right now we will start 15 minutes attack on your site's IP X.X.X.X It will not be hard, we will not crash it at the moment to try to minimize eventual damage, which we want to avoid at this moment. It's just to prove that this is not a hoax. Check your logs!
> 
> If you don't pay by Saturday, attack will start, price to stop will increase by 5 BTC for every day of attack.
> 
> If you report this to media and try to get some free publicity by using our name, instead of paying, attack will start permanently and will last for a long time.
> 
> This is not a joke.
> 
> Our attacks are extremely powerful - sometimes over 1 Tbps per second. So, no cheap protection will help.
> 
> Prevent it all with just 5 BTC @ 14T7TxDxhhpYtgNgrK1hpe4UsfULZDhFoC
> 
> Do not reply, we will probably not read. Pay and we will know its you. AND YOU WILL NEVER AGAIN HEAR FROM US!
> 
> Bitcoin is anonymous, nobody will ever know you cooperated.
> 
> ———————————
> 
> 
> 
> apcs
> Keith Anderson l Managing Director
> AUS Mobile. +61 400 947 947 <tel:%2B61%20400%20947%20947> Fax.  1300 7654 27 <tel:1300%207654%2027>
> PNG Phone. +675 303 1236 <tel:%2B675%20303%201236>  Mobile. +675 76 947 947   Fax. +675 325 9066 <tel:%2B675%20325%209066>
> Email. keitha at apcs.com.au <mailto:keitha at apcs.com.au> l Web. www.apcs.com.au <http://apcs.com.au/>
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