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Several banks that were victims of a fall round of distributed denial of service attacks, including JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America, are likely to be hit again.
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Wells Fargo is seeing unusual volumes of traffic, but the "vast majority" of its customers are not affected, the bank says.
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Two targets of the al Qassam Cyber Fighters Group are seeing unusual traffic on their websites.
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The regional bank is the ninth company to be hit with distributed denial of service attacks allegedly perpetrated by group affiliated with Iran.
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Citigroup (NYSE: C) is seeing its website slow down amid a wave of distributed denial of service attacks on the nation's biggest banks.
Some customers of the third-largest U.S. bank by assets reported difficulty accessing their accounts on Wednesday, a day after a hacktivist group that has claimed responsibility for a series of electronic assaults on at least 10 banks since September threatened more attacks.
"This afternoon, Citi experienced temporary interruptions in the availability of some of its websites," Citigroup spokesman Andrew Brent said Wednesday night in an email. "We worked to resolve the situation in a matter of hours and continue to monitor online activity."
Visitors to Sitedown.co, a website that tracks website outages, recorded 144 reports Wednesday night from people who claimed to have
The slowdown follows a vow Tuesday by the al Qassam Cyber Fighters Group to sustain the assaults, which can overwhelm banks' websites and prevent customers from accessing their accounts. "This week also
The group pledges to
BB&T (BBT), Wells Fargo (WFC), U.S. Bank (USB) and PNC Bank (PNC) all have seen their websites besieged recently as well.