Wells Fargo is the most recent mega-bank to be hit by a distributed denial-of-service attack. According to the Wall Street Journal, roughly 220 customers filed complaints of outages on its Web site today saying they had problems logging on.
"The amount of bandwidth that is flooding the websites is very large, much larger than in other attacks, and in a sense unprecedented," chief executive of private security firm CrowdStrike Dmitri Alperovitch told the Wall Street Journal.
Last week, similar attacks happened on J.P. Morgan Chase and Bank of America's Web sites. Users would try to log-on and instead got outage messages from the banks. According to the Wall Street Journal, there were 330 complaints about Bank of America's disruption and nearly 1,000 complaints about J.P. Morgan's.
The big question here is who is launching these attacks?
An unknown group called the "cyber fighters of Izz ad-din Al qassam" is claiming responsibility. Over the past week, it has been posting details on Pastebin about its attacks on U.S. banks, saying that it's retaliating for the release of the ... [Read more]
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