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Hacktivists strike U.S. Bank with volunteer-powered DDoS

U.S. Bank’s website was disrupted on Wednesday in a people-powered distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. The attack involved hundreds of thousands of computers sending an overwhelming number of requests that downed the site for roughly an hour, starting at around 3:30 Pacific. The group calling itself al-Mrt Izz ad-Dinin Cyber Fighters” had said on a Pastebin post that it would attack Wells Fargo & Co. The group has taken credit for other attacks last week, against Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup.”]

Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2132323/hacktivists-strike-u-s–bank-with-volunteer-powered-ddos.html

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