Food Delivery Service in Germany Under DDoS Attack

mood · Mar 19, 2020

Food Delivery Service in Germany Under DDoS Attack
March 19, 2020
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/food-delivery-service-in-germany-under-ddos-attack/

Cybercriminals found in the context of a public health crisis that caused unprecedented restrictions affecting the restaurant industry a perfect opportunity to launch an attack on the systems of Takeaway food delivery service in Germany.

Under these conditions, many Germans order in through food delivery services like Takeaway.com (Lieferando.de). Yet cybercriminals have launched a distributed denial-of-service attack on the website demanding 2 bitcoins (around $11,000) to stop the siege.
Jitse Groen, the founder and CEO of Takeaway, today posted on Twitter the news of the attack. He attached a screenshot with the attacker's demand that threatened to attack other company sites.

Soon after Groen's tweet, the German branch of the company announced that its systems had been attacked and entered in maintenance mode "to ensure the security of all data." This could cause delays in order processing.
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Lieferando boasts food delivery from more than 15,000 restaurants in Germany, so the impact of a DDoS attack is significant; not just for customers but for restaurant owners, too.
At the time of publishing, Lieferando website was up and running.
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