A majority of European organizations are under the potential threat of cyber extortion, and many are placing blame on their internet service providers (ISP), according to a survey of 100 security professionals at the Infosecurity Europe conference in London, conducted by Corero Network Security.

The survey found that 80 percent of European IT professionals expect their organizations will face cyber extortion over the next 12 months, by cybercriminals threatening to deploy distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS) on their IT and web services.

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