Many online business have learned how to deal with these threats.  Just recently Protonmail hit the news and found out the hard way whether to pay or NOT.  Have a quick read at the log of events for yourself. http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/11/how-extorted-e-mail-provider-got-bac... Sent via the Samsung GALAXY S® 5, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone -------- Original message -------- From: Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@arbor.net> Date: 12/3/2015 3:10 PM (GMT-05:00) To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> Subject: Re: Ransom DDoS attack - need help! On 3 Dec 2015, at 22:04, Josh Reynolds wrote:

None of those names you just mentioned have made the international news.

Of course they have. ----------------------------------- Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@arbor.net>