Extorting money from an Internet service user by threatening to prevent the user from having access to the service is known as ______.

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The act of extorting money from a user by threatening to prevent access to a service is known as a denial-of-service attack. This is typically done through the use of bots to flood a website or service with traffic, making it unavailable to users.

Extorting Money from an Internet Service User by Threatening to Prevent