Cybercrime experts warn of DDoS attacks, fake donation sites

The Internet Crime Complaint Center warned of a growing number of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, extortion emails targeting physicians and payday loan customers, fake donation websites and messages purporting to be from the FBI that contain a destructive type of software called a trojan. A DDoS attack is generally organized by hackers and occurs when multiple systems flood the bandwidth or resources of a targeted server.