Cyberattackers 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, one security vendor said on Monday. Prolexic Technologies said the distributed denial of service (DDoS) toolkit called itsoknoproblembro was used against some of the banks which included Wells Fargo, U.S. Bank, PNC Bank, Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase. Each of the banks was struck on separate days.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/100112-expert-fingers-ddos-toolkit-used-262946.html
In the most recent attacks, the traffic coming in was the equivalent to about 65 gigabytes per second, Smith says. “A typical DDoS attack waged by a hacktivist group looks much different than what we saw here,” he says. “You would expect less than 1 gbps [gigabyte per second] of attack traffic for the average hacktivist, and would expect peaks up to, maybe, 2 gbps.”
http://www.bankinfosecurity.com/new-bank-attacks-expected-today-a-5155/op-1
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