Hackers and spammers are working really different and awkward ways to monetize themselves. Symantec security recently discovered a new strategy of deceiving users or rather threaten users that if they pay them they won’t harm them and if they don’t they will go for hack. Recently lot of domain owners received mails stating that there is they (mail senders) are from hacking community who DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service Attacks) and further email states that if the domain owners don’t want this to happen this to their domain they need to send the mentioned amount to them (example:200 Dollars),and the threat that if they don’t pay this amount they(hackers) will kill the website.The “To” field contains the email address that is provided by the registrant in the contact details for the domain (which can be discovered using a simple whois lookup), and the “Subject” header says “Hosting – Important Updates and Information” – making it look like the email is coming from the hosting service provider.
Symantec says the spelling mistakes in the email are intentional, so that the massage can evade content-based antispam filters. But, in this case, they can also lend a certain amount of credibility to the sender, since the name of the “hack project” sounds Slavic in origin. Perfect knowledge of the English language would, in this case, probably raise more suspicion.
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