By Anthony Berrios
Blog Post #12
With the spread of COVID-19 across the planet, people worldwide have stayed indoors as much as possible. Citizens of Germany are not exception. Because of this new more sedentary lifestyle with people staying indoors and even working from home in some instances, delivery services have seen a large increase in activity. One of these delivery services is a food delivery company called Liefernado.de. Germany has imposed strict rules and regulations upon the restaurant industry that include a limited number of guest, farther distance between each table, and must refrain from being open from 6pm to 6am. Because of these limitations German citizens order food through food delivery services like Lieferando.de (Takeaway.com in English) to safely get food for themselves and their family. Cyber criminals saw this as an opportunity to attack the ever increasing in popularity food delivery service. Once the DDoS attack was in full effect the CEO of Lieferando.de Jitse Groen received an email from the hacker requesting 2 bitcoin (about $11,000) to have the attack stopped. Groen then tweeted out about the attack and ransom email to let customers know what was going on. This attack was significant because of the fact that Groen’s food delivery company delivered food for over 15,000 restaurants in Germany and was frequently used by German citizens. While the attack was going on however the app still accepted orders and payments from customers. Groen had to address this in another tweet in which customer had to email the company to claim their refund. Looks like the ransom must have been paid because the website is currently up and running as we speak.
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