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

Grant Ridder shortdudey123 at gmail.com
Fri Jan 4 12:02:14 EST 2013


I saw the same email from PNC buy have not seen any slowness when accessing their mobile site from central Florida.

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On Jan 4, 2013, at 11:46 AM, Rich Kulawiec <rsk at gsp.org> wrote:

> 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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