This "story" was also in the
Guardian yesterday, with a few random extra "facts" thrown in and the whole thing conflated with the recent Ddos attack on Dyn.
The Guardian starts off with
experts say
then
a leading IT expert.
This appears to be 'futurist' Dr. Simon Moores who, amongst other things, is mad keen on the
Tweet Machine (and quite funny too).
Why have this series of articles have appeared this weekend hung off his quote?
He mentions (and pins) a tweet
A passing remark on risk makes a #bitcoin splash - #infosec #DDoS -
(referring to the Guardian article)
Quite what that passing remark was and when is unclear, but an earlier tweet provides a clue
Hearing from @metpoliceuk that #cryptolocker #ransomware made more money last year than #Yahoo 😒 @eCrime_Congress #ecrime2016