A group of hackers who claims to be the “Armada Collective”, known for their extortion, has led cyber-crime to new levels. The Group of “hackers” has extorted some businesses through the sending of emails with false threats to launch a DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack.

In just two months, the false hacker group would have managed to win thousands of dollars with companies from around the world, but that not able to realize that were being misled by a false threat of a potential DDoS attack. According to the company’s security CloudFlare, the so-called Armada Collective had sent emails to companies around the world demanding a ransom in Bitcoin and threatening an attack unless a payment was made.

However, some companies that have opted not to respond to blackmail observed that, despite the threatening tone and the real that it seemed the threat, not was carried out any attack, one of the companies that ignored the extortion was the signature VPN Cloak, reported The Verge.

Taking into account that there are rumors on the Internet regarding the arrest of members of the Armada group in January this year, it is highly unlikely that the real hackers are behind these recent threats. It is likely that there are grounds to believe that someone is going through them to make lots of easy money. Unfortunately, this approach seems to work pretty well.

However, according to the Motherboard website it is likely that after the denunciation of CloudFlare on the fraud was carried out, criminals simply opted to change the name and have now begun to pretend to be another infamous group of hacking, the Lizard Squad.

“In recent days, hundreds of organizations have received threats by email from a group that is identified as Lizard Squad and demand a ransom in order to avoid a crippling attack DDoS, according to Prince and Radware, another firm of DDoS mitigation.” – It was reported the Motherboard website.

Likewise informs that security companies noticed similarities in the threats of the previous and the new hacking group, and apparently could warn in time to its customers of the new deception, since none of the goals seems to have paid.

These deceptions manage to succeed because the ignorance, which is the best protection that can be obtained is educating in this regard, to not let the fear make these criminals reach with its objective.

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