PNC Financial Services Group’s online banking site was bombarded with high volumes of traffic for the second time this week. Bank of America, U.S. Bank and SunTrust Banks were named by the hacktivist group Izz ad-Din al-Qassam as being targets for this second phase of DDoS attacks. Industry analysts say banks worldwide are on the lookout for distributed-denial-of-service attacks, which rely on high volume of traffic to disable and disrupt websites. These attacks are increasing in sophistication, experts say.”]
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