[Outages-discussion] Are sustained DDoS attacks against US banksongoing?

[Bill Wichers]

I had some issues with Chase's site a few days ago, and I received the
message from PNC late last night. There have been reports on this list
of some issues with Bank of America I think a month or two ago as well
so the basic information PNC provided is probably true.

  -Bill

> -----Original Message-----
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> bounces at outages.org] On Behalf Of Rich Kulawiec
> Sent: Friday, January 04, 2013 11:47 AM
> To: outages-discussion at outages.org
> Subject: [Outages-discussion] Are sustained DDoS attacks against US
> banksongoing?
> 
> PNC Bank is telling is customers this (per Dave Farber's "IP" list):
> 
> 	"A number of banks in the U.S., including PNC, are seeing
> 	an unusually high volume of traffic at their Internet
> 	connections. This volume of traffic is consistent with
threatened
> 	cyber attacks on the U.S. banking system and is designed to
cause
> 	access delays for legitimate internet customers."
> 
> I neither believe nor disbelieve them at this point...but I'd like
> to request independent confirmation of this assertion.  Is there
anyone
> on this list who can provide that?
> 
> ---rsk
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