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

[Frank Bulk]

I can only confirm to the extent that this has been in the media for a long
time:
http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2013/01/web_sites_of_several_maj
or_ban.html
http://newyork.newsday.com/business/technology/bank-of-america-jpmorgan-chas
e-pnc-wells-fargo-dos-cyber-attacks-prompt-federal-warning-1.4367792
http://articles.latimes.com/2012/sep/27/business/la-fi-bank-attacks-20120927
http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-wells-online-outage-20120925,
0,1876507.story


-----Original Message-----
From: outages-discussion-bounces at outages.org
[mailto:outages-discussion-bounces at outages.org] On Behalf Of Rich Kulawiec
Sent: Friday, January 04, 2013 10:47 AM
To: outages-discussion at outages.org
Subject: [Outages-discussion] Are sustained DDoS attacks against US banks
ongoing?

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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