Hushmail, Fast Mail And Other Email Providers Extorted

Different e-mail providers, including Hushmail and Fast Mail, have become the target of extortionists that heavy DDoS attacks against the email services. So users could not some time in their email. Earlier it was announced that ProtonMail was extorted.

This e-mail provider decided the amount that the extortionists were demanding to be paid, but the attacks continued, however.Also Fastmail was threatened by extortionists, but this e-mail service refused to pay, according to the company in a blog posting know. The attacks that followed meant that users could not log on for several days, according to the status page.Meanwhile, the service is accessible again and would since November 9, no new attacks have been more to endure.

Another provider that faced the extortionists is Hushmail, which offers like ProtonMail encrypted e-mail service. Hushmail also refused to pay and was from November 5 with DDoS attacks harassed, allowing customers several days at their e-mail could. Yesterday was another DDoS attack rather than allowing Hushmail was unreachable for some time, let the status page to see.

E-mail provider Runbox also got to do with the attack, which lasted several days. Again, the extortionists demanded money again and it was decided not to pay. Last Saturday stopped the attacks, the attackers even made ​​their apologies, as the company said on the website. At the same time it was also e-mail provider VFEmail under fire. The company refused to pay, but the owner it was considering to stop the mail service, so he lets on Facebook know. VFEmail however is still active and is a temporary solution, a new IP address implemented anti-DDoS proxy to stop the attacks.

Tor-Mail Service Attack Suspects By Intelligence

On the Tor-based e-mail service SIGAINT has warned users that it has become a target of a suspected intelligence, which were deployed in a total of 70 malicious servers. The attacking party would also recent months several attacks carried out against the infrastructure of the service. According to the managers of SIGAINT the attacks had failed, however.

SIGAINT only through the Tor network and accessible on the Internet to protect journalists and activists against the large-scale surveillance. The website sigaint.org state the address of the Tor website where SIGAINT is found. According to the manager, the alleged intelligence tried to change this address, so that Man-in-the-middle attacks could carry on users could spy on them in real time.

Probably therefore some passwords stolen, but it would have been the attackers not to do. "We get less than one user in the three months complaining that their account has been hijacked," said the manager. SIGAINT would have a total of 42,000 users. Because the e-mail service of the Tor network uses it depends on the servers in the network.

The Tor network consists of several servers on which the traffic passes. The last server in the chain is the exit node or exit relay. Through this server, which is added by volunteers to the Tor network, the request of the Tor user is sent to the Internet.The attackers had put in this case 70 of such servers. Because of this large number of suspects administrator SIGAINT that he has been the target of an intelligence service.

He leaves the Tor-mailing list that can be used for the website sigaint.org an SSL certificate to ensure that the content, and also the address of the Tor website is adjusted. An intelligence service might work, according to him so through using the key from a certificate authority from the country. The malicious Tor servers proved to be not only against SIGAINT deployed, but also can be used for other dubious affairs. All 70 servers have been placed on a blacklist.