Again the focus of international cyber criminals has turned to western Banking institutions. Over the last few weeks numerous banks have been hit by the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters. A story was reported in the news back in September that this attack would occur. HSBC was the latest bank to experience an attack. Similar to attack on other banks, HSBC servers were attacked causing websites to be inaccessible to customers for a short time. The attack occurred on Thursday the 18th and was under control by early Friday London time. The group has vowed that the attacks will continue "until the anti-Islamic ‘Innocence of Muslims’ film trailer is removed from the Internet."
What makes this attack unique is that a group claiming to have ties to Anonymous has also claimed they had a hand in the attack. According to a source in the article though, “the technique and systems used against HSBC were the same as the other banks.” Of course this does not mean that some other group did not help out the Islamic Cyber terrorists. Some in the US government believe that Iran is behind the attacks but researchers think otherwise. What is agreed upon is the fact that this attack is fairly sophisticated.
During the last two weeks, the following banks have been attacked:
Bank of America
Capital One
SunTrust
Regions Financial
BB&T
HSBC
Wells Fargo
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