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Banks are turning to the National Security Agency for help mitigating DDoS attacks.
January 11 -
The New York Times reported that the long-time rumors that Iran is behind a swath of distributed denial of service attacks on banks are true.
January 9 -
The Winston-Salem, N.C., regional bank is weathering its second distributed denial-of-service attack this year after some customers who visited the bank's website were unable to log on.
December 20
BB&T (BBT) has weathered another cyberattack.
The $182 billion-asset bank based in Winston-Salem, N.C., said Wednesday it had endured a so-called denial of service attack a day earlier that left some customers unable to access their accounts.
The bank "definitely experienced some DDoS activity," BB&T spokesman Brian Davis told American Banker, referring to a dedicated denial of service attack. "It was an afternoon event," said Davis, who added that the website functioned normally again by evening.
The assault is at least the third on BB&T since September and comes amid a wave of electronic onslaughts that have slowed websites at some of the nation's biggest banks.
At least some of the attacks have tapped protocols and harnessed cloud computing facilities to exploit vulnerabilities in banks' cyber defenses, according to
Though a group that calls itself the al Qassam Cyber Fighters says it is waging the attacks in retaliation for an American-made, anti-Muslim film trailer that remains posted on YouTube, some U.S. officials have tied the incursions to the Iranian government, which has denied responsibility.
