1. Wednesday, September 19, 2012 - 8:46 PM
An update via Reuters:
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The Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center, which is widely known as FS-ISAC, raised the cyber threat level to "high" from "elevated" in an advisory to members, citing "recent credible intelligence regarding the potential" for cyber attacksas its reason for the move. [...] An outside security contractor told Reuters that "massive" denial-of-service attacks had been launched against multiple banks but declined to comment further.
The move by FS-ISAC came just two days the FBI published a "fraud alert" advising financial services firms that cyber criminals may be disrupting service to their websites in a bid to keep banks from noticing a recent surge in fraudulent large-sized wire transfers.
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