{"id":2443,"date":"2016-03-01T19:42:44","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T19:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/?p=2443"},"modified":"2016-03-01T19:42:44","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T19:42:44","slug":"dorset-police-alert-online-extortion-demand-affecting-uk-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/2016\/03\/01\/dorset-police-alert-online-extortion-demand-affecting-uk-businesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Dorset Police Alert &#8211; Online Extortion Demand Affecting UK Businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Within the past 24 hours a number of businesses throughout the UK have received extortion demands from a group calling themselves \u2018RepKiller Team\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Method of Attack:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The group have sent emails demanding payment of between \u00a3300 \u2013 \u00a3500 in Bitcoins by a certain date and time.<\/li>\n<li>If their demand is not met, they have threatened to launch a cyber attack against the business and its reputation by\u00a0automating hundreds of negative reviews online.<\/li>\n<li>The demand states that once their actions have started, they cannot be undone.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you have received such a demand, or receive one in the future, you are advised to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Make a report to Action Fraud on 0300 123 2040 or via the online reporting tool on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.actionfraud.police.uk\">www.actionfraud.police.uk<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Do not pay the demand<\/li>\n<li>Retain the original emails (with headers)<\/li>\n<li>Maintain a timeline of the attack, recording all times, type and content of the contact<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>All affected businesses, whether the attack is attempted or successful, should report in the first instance to Action\u00a0Fraud on 0300 123 2040 or via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.actionfraud.police.uk\">www.actionfraud.police.uk<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Within the past 24 hours a number of businesses throughout the UK have received extortion demands from a group calling themselves \u2018RepKiller Team\u2019. Method of Attack: The group have sent emails demanding payment of between \u00a3300 \u2013 \u00a3500 in Bitcoins by a certain date and time. If their demand is not met, they have threatened&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/2016\/03\/01\/dorset-police-alert-online-extortion-demand-affecting-uk-businesses\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dorset Police Alert &#8211; Online Extortion Demand Affecting UK Businesses<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crimewatch","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/logo.gif?fit=121%2C93&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2MmHE-Dp","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 00:41:03","action":"Draft","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2444,"href":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443\/revisions\/2444"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}