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A dangerous trend in the online casino gambling industry in Australia is actually now being considered as a prelude to further and more destructive acts against many of the top internet gambling companies. News reports out of Australia now indicate that hackers are looking for ways to block traffic going to the online casinos and betting sites. The attacks by the hackers are pretty scary for the online casinos because the sites being down for even the briefest of time costs the gambling sites a whole lot of money. Additionally, the analysts seen to believe that this is just the warm up – the hackers may take this a whole lot further in the coming weeks and months in an effort to block traffic going to the Australian-facing online casinos.

Australia currently allows a great many sectors of the US internet gambling to operate within certain states, but the online casinos in particular are not actually permitted. The hackers are really playing with the sites right now and taking them down at the height of the games –right when they are busy. One of the alarming factors – the online casino betting brands affected are some of the most popular names in the betting industry. Betchoice, Sportsbet, Sports Alive, Sportingbet have all been negatively hit by the hackers at their online casino betting venues in the state.

Ransom is the likely cause for the hacker attacks –this sort of situation has apparently happened in several other industries and the experts are predicting that the next step is a ransom request where the site is held hostage until monies are released. Additional rumors are speculating through the online casino gambling industry that this crime could be linked to the Russian mafia and crime families. There is no hard and firm information though at this point and the online gambling sites are just looking for a way to stop the hackers when they hijack the site and take over control over everything from the games to the player accounts.