Suspect of Bitcoin extortion group DD4BC arrested

According to CoinDesk , the EU's top law enforcement agency announced that the distributed denial of service ( DDoS ) attack group DD4BC will launch a new round of attacks.

Europol said today that a suspect has been arrested as a member of a group called "Operation Pleiades" . The group threatened to launch DDoS attacks and demanded Bitcoin ransom. The known targets of the attacks were a wide range of web -based services, with a focus on web -based Bitcoin-related services, including mining pools.

The agency said authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany, France, Japan, Romania, Switzerland, Britain and the United States supported or directly helped with the operation.

Europol said in a statement:

"Operation Pleiades was the main goal of this arrest operation , and more suspects were detained during the operation . More extensive clues were obtained and more evidence was collected. "

The agency said it had identified him as a key member of the group's network based in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Prior to this, the Swiss government issued a warning that the group would carry out cyber attacks on Australia, New Zealand and Switzerland.