Wells Fargo recovers after site outage

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9231721/Wells_Fargo_recovers_after_site_outage

By Jeremy Kirk
IDG News Service
September 26, 2012

Wells Fargo's website experience intermittent outages on Tuesday, while 
the hacker group claiming responsibility threatened to hit U.S. Bancorp 
and PNC Financial Services Group over the next two days.

Wells Fargo apologized on Twitter for the disruption, saying it was 
working to restore access. By Wednesday morning, the site appeared to be 
functioning.

A group calling itself the "Mrt. Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters" 
said it coordinated the attacks, and planned further ones on U.S. 
Bancorp on Wednesday and PNC Financial Services Group on Thursday, 
according to a post on Pastebin.

The method used against Wells Fargo could be a distributed 
denial-of-service attack, which bombards a website with traffic in an 
attempt to make it unreachable, although the bank did not indicate the 
cause.

The group said the cyberattacks are in retaliation for the 14-minute 
video trailer insulting the Prophet Muhammad, saying the attacks will 
continue until the video is removed from the Internet. The attacks will 
last eight hours starting at 2:30 p.m. GMT, the group wrote.

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