At least five Russian banks have been subject to a swathe of DDoS attacks for two days, said the Russian banking regulator. The state-owned Sberbank was one of the five targets of the attacks that began on Tuesday afternoon and lasted over the next two days. The longest attack last for 12 hours and peaked at 660,000 requests per second came from a botnet of at least 24,000 hacked devices located in 30 countries. Kaspersky Lab believes that the latest attack does not look like the work of the ‘Mirai’ the one used to disrupt the Dyn DNS service.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2016/11/bank-ddos-attack.html