The attacks on online banking systems in disguise for DDoS
Experts say they have found a new strategy to hacker attacks that target funds from accounts in online banking systems. To mask a malicious hacker attacks are starting to use another - DDoS-attack. The company Gartner said that uncovered cases of theft from accounts in online banking systems, under the guise of DDoS-attacks. Among say that revealed at least three cases of attacks on U.S. banks, when the authors of attacks launched artificial DDoS-attacks on the servers of banks, and under their cover was carried out incursions into online banking systems, longer undetected because IT staff engaged in a reflection of DDoS-attacks. In Gartner does not say exactly what the U.S. banks hit by the attacks, but in the past few months, a group of U.S. banks, including JP Morgan, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Chase, Citigroup, HSBC, reported on activities within their relation DDoS- attacks.
"It was not a politically motivated group. organizers set out to bring down the sites of banks for a few hours, that is itself DDoS-attack was not their ultimate goal," - said in a Gartner. "When a DDoS-attack in full swing , a group of crooks switched to attack payment systems and banking online, trying to get extended privileges in the system "- say in the company. Also in the report, Gartner said that while the organizers of the attacks are almost always trying to gain access to network equipment responsible for the transmission of transactions.
At the Gartner report does not say exactly how the hackers gained access to online banking, but the advice is given to banks: when a DDoS attacks, reduce or even cancel the financial transactions, and implement a multi-layer protection system IT perimeter. Earlier in the financial and economic division of the U.S. FBI said the growth of DDoS-activity in the U.S. banking sector, and told that they found on the Internet a series of 200-dollar software kits for the most popular attack online banking.
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