Over the past few months notorious hacking groups have targeted financial institutions, large tech corporations and popular web platforms like Ashley Madison and the Bank of China.

DD4BC is a malicious group responsible for several Bitcoin extortion campaigns, and has expanded its distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack campaigns against Akamai customers in recent months. Akamai is a global leader in Content Delivery Network (CDN) services, an industry making the Internet fast, reliable and secure for users.