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Cyber Attacks on U.S. Banks Reflect a Frightening New Era in Cyber Warfare
Jan 15, 2013Cyber attacks on U.S. banks over the last several months reflect a frightening new era in cyber warfare, according to security expert Darren Hayes, who says that corporations are unprepared to battle such attacks because of a shortage of ...
Tags: cyber attacks, U.S.banks, DDoS Bank
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U.S.Officials Blamed Iran for The Ongoing Stream of DDoS Against Major U.S. Banks
Jan 14, 2013Though U.S. officials have consistently blamed Iran for the ongoing stream of distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS) against major U.S. banks, a number of security experts now say that there is not enough evidence to assign the blame ...
Tags: Iran, bank attacks, financial services networks, cyber security
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The People Behind The Ongoing DDoS Attack Campaign Are Using Botnets for Hire
Jan 11, 2013Evidence collected from a website that was recently used to flood U.S. banks with junk traffic suggests that the people behind the ongoing DDoS attack campaign against U.S. financial institutions — thought by some to be the work of ...
Tags: bank attacks, botnets for hire, cyber attacks, Homeland Security, Iran
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Cyber Attackers Used a Highly Sophisticated Toolkit
Dec 17, 2012Cyber attackers who disrupted the websites of U.S. banks over the last two weeks used a highly sophisticated toolkit — a finding that points to a well-funded operation, a security vendor has said. Prolexic Technologies said the ...
Tags: cybercrime, Hactivists, highlightedpost, Bank attacks