Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks1 are not a new method employed by cyber criminals to inflict damage on victim entities’ networks. In fact, DDoS attacks were one of the first types of online crimes to appear in the dawn of the Internet age.2 In the past several years, however, cyber threat actors have rekindled this attack to produce two new variants,…
According to Stratecast, DDoS attacks are increasing in number by 20 per cent to 45 pc annually Google, Microsoft, Apple, PayPal, Visa, MasterCard… many of the world’s largest websites have all been victims of Distributed-Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks. A DDoS attack consists in having a multitude of systems attack a single target in an attempt to make its resources unavailable to…
VANCOUVER, Jan. 22, 2013 /CNW/ - DOSarrest Internet Security announced a new website monitoring service today called the “DOSarrest External Monitoring Service” or “DEMS”. This new service is a real-time geographically distributed system, capable of monitoring a number of website performance metrics from three different geographic regions, every 60 seconds, utilizing six different sensors. This service may be purchased as…
The websites of major U.S. banks are facing a new round of cyber attacks linked to the same group responsible for similar assaults earlier this year. The latest attacks started last week and have hit Bank of America Corp., SunTrust Banks Inc. (STI), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM), U.S. Bancorp, Wells Fargo & Co. (WFC) and PNC Financial Services Group…
The regulator for national banks issued an alert Friday about the apparent uptick in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks being waged against financial institutions. The note from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), which was addressed to the heads of national banks, federal branches and agencies, technology service providers and other related organizations, described how a recent wave of DDoS attacks are disrupting the availability…
DDoS‘s popularity as an attack method can be explained by how important availability is to most organizations’ ability to function. Availability is as critical to an organization today as electricity. If an organization is taken offline, it can lose the ability to generate revenue from its customers, or the ability to access cloud-based data and applications. And, if publicized, the…
Hacktivists’ phase 2 distributed-denial-of-service attacks against U.S. banks appeared to subside Dec. 19. Only Wells Fargo reported online access issues, but the bank pointed out that outages were limited. A day earlier, the bank reported a more extensive DDoS hit. The hacktivist group Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters Group on Dec. 18 posted an update on Pastebin, saying targeted banks…
With its hosting DNA, DOSarrest understands the challenges of dealing with a distribute denial of service (DDoS) attack in a data center. We know, for example, that for every minute your website is reeling from a DDoS attack, thousands - or even hundreds of thousands-of dollars can be lost in the form of missed sales and credibility with your customers….
The day after Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters announced plans to launch a second wave of distributed-denial-of-service attacks on five U.S. banks, SunTrust suffered intermittent outages and Bank of America and PNC said small numbers of their customers reported having trouble accessing their sites. But it remained unclear whether the problems were the result of an attack. U.S. Bank, which…
The hacktivists are now letting their words speak for their actions. For the third time in one month, a source claiming to be part of the self-proclaimed hacktivist group known as Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters has granted an interview to discuss the wave of high-profile distributed denial of service attacks on U.S. banks. During the recent interview with Flashpoint…
