[governance] US Banks under cyber attack

[David Conrad]

Hi,

On Oct 19, 2012, at 11:49 AM, Devon Blake <devonrb at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/u-banks-under-cyber-attack-iran-money-safe-151123675.html
> Is this a response to Stuxnet? or is this the beginning of a cyberwar?

It is (perhaps not surprisingly) quite difficult to determine what is actually going on from the level of information available to the general public.  However, within some security circles, there have been rumors of this sort of thing happening in this timeframe for some time now, e.g.:

http://www.threatmetrix.com/fraudsandends/tag/russian-cyber-attacks/
http://blogs.rsa.com/rsafarl/cyber-gang-seeks-botmasters-to-wage-massive-wave-of-trojan-attacks-against-u-s-banks/

Other interpretations has been this is part of an ongoing campaign to protest the "Innocence of Muslims" 'movie', Iranian retribution for Stuxnet, or a false flag operation by US/Israelis in preparation for an attack against Iran.

Pick your poison...

Regards,
-drc

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