SunTrust is the seventh U.S. bank apparently hit by a distributed denial of service attack. SunTrust’s servers were intermittently overloaded, making the site inaccessible at different points during day in some parts of the country. Capital One was the sixth bank to take an online hit when its site suffered an outage Oct. 9. Izz ad-Din al-Qassam has claimed it’s waging a cyberwar against top-tier banking institutions through hacktivism because of outrage over a YouTube movie trailer the group believes casts Islam in a negative light.”]
Source: https://www.cuinfosecurity.com/suntrust-latest-attack-victim-a-5184