During the last couple of months, ransomware attacks have increased significantly, thus forcing online businesses from all around the world to pay out hundreds of thousands of dollars-worth of bitcoin to scammers.

However, a group known by the name of Armada Collective has decided to take advantage of the fear caused by the increasing number of DDoS attacks, and make some money for themselves. To learn more about the cybercriminals, CloudFlare has decided to take matters into their own hands, and investigate.

During the last couple of years, Distributed Denial of Service Attacks (DDoS) have gotten a lot more popular, due to the fact that they’re cheap and easy to carry out, and they basically require no effort whatsoever once a stable script is put into place.

For those who do not know, DDoS attacks take advantage of one of the biggest vulnerabilities of serves- the fact that they can only handle a set amount of connections or traffic at the same time. Based on this, they basically flood server with requests, which in turn, either slows or takes sites down completely.