With the second attackers exhibiting capabilities more commonly possessed by state-sponsored actors,” ProtonMail said in the post. “This means that ProtonMail is likely under attack by two separate groups.

Unlike similar DDoS and ransomware attacks, though, paying the bitcoin failed to stop intermittent DDoS attacks against ProtonMail between Tuesday night and Thursday. Operators of the Switzerland-based ProtonMail said in a blog post Thursday they “grudgingly agreed” to pay 15 bitcoins (roughly $6,066) in exchange for stopping a DDoS attack, which overwhelms a site with so much traffic that it knocks it offline. ProtonMail learned that the hard way Thursday when, after meeting the demands of a group behind a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, the encrypted email provider was still unable to resume normal operations. Sometimes, paying a hacker's ransom isn't enough to free your business from an attack. dollars into the cryptocurrency used to pay data hostage fees. Often, ransomware victims need to rush to their nearest bitcoin ATM to convert U.S.

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