Posted on 11/10/2015 7:12:28 AM PST by Alfred O. Bama
Encrypted email provider ProtonMail is still being hit by a DDoS attack from what appears to be a nation state, as well as a secondary and separate lower-level assault from an identified assailant. However, the service is now operating normally, it seems.
Switzerland-based ProtonMail offers an encrypted webmail system able to withstand intelligence agency-level surveillance. However, since last Tuesday the company has continued to be hit by DDoS attacks from two attackers.
Talking to The Register, ProtonMail CEO Andy Yen explained: "We have been attacked every day since 3 November, so we're now entering the sixth day of attacks."
"There are two attackers," said Yen. "Since 4 November, we have been mostly battling the second attacker. They are highly sophisticated and have a lot of resources. The first group that attacked us, the Armada Collective, is largely irrelevant compared with the power of the second attacker."
ProtonMail has stated that the second-attacker's malicious efforts had all the hallmarks of a state-sponsored attack, both in its complexity and in its willingness to cause large-scale damage to achieve its aims....
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That’s odd. I wouldn’t expect such an attack from gov’t entities. Maybe China or N.K.
No, more likely it’s a Western nation, they are the ones who have an agenda against secure encryption for foolish reasons.
Not with DDoS. It accomplishes little. Unless ISIS is transferring messages through there. Which is a possibility. Then it would actually be purposed with a result.
And they were idiots to pay the Bitcoin ransom. They at least figured that part out. Intelligence services don’t ask for Bitcoin.
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