Showing posts with label cyber attacks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cyber attacks. Show all posts
Saturday, February 21, 2015
OpSaudi: Hackers Shutdown Saudi Bank Website
On Wednesday 17th Feb, 2015, a group of hacktivists calling themselves “The oppressed defenders” conducted a cyber attack on Saudi Arabian based bank AlJazira in shape of a Distributed denial of service attack (DD0S).
As a result the online banking and e-service domains of bank AlJazira were forced to go offline for more than thirty minutes.
One of the hacker told HackRead the reason behind targeting this bank was human rights violations within the Kingdom.
Hacker claimed they had warned the new Saudi king Salman bin Abdulaziz to stop violating human rights in the country or prepare yourself for never ending cyber attacks.
In past few weeks the same group had attacked Saudi financial institutions such as Samba, Alahli and Riyad bank.
“Those attacks on Samba, Alahli, Riyad bank were just small warnings to the Saudi regime and it’s king and if they don’t pay attention to the demands made by people, there will be attacks with more strength than before. These attacks are warnings to make Saudi regime change its behavior with the people and stops its wrong policies,” the hacker added.
Below are screenshots showing the bank’s site were down:
Identity of hackers remain unknown, but in an email HackRead was told there will be new and more powerful cyber attacks on Saudi financial institutions to put an end to violations of human rights in the Kingdom.
At the time of publishing this article, the Bank AlJazira was restored and available online.
Source: https://www.hackread.com
As a result the online banking and e-service domains of bank AlJazira were forced to go offline for more than thirty minutes.
One of the hacker told HackRead the reason behind targeting this bank was human rights violations within the Kingdom.
Hacker claimed they had warned the new Saudi king Salman bin Abdulaziz to stop violating human rights in the country or prepare yourself for never ending cyber attacks.
In past few weeks the same group had attacked Saudi financial institutions such as Samba, Alahli and Riyad bank.
“Those attacks on Samba, Alahli, Riyad bank were just small warnings to the Saudi regime and it’s king and if they don’t pay attention to the demands made by people, there will be attacks with more strength than before. These attacks are warnings to make Saudi regime change its behavior with the people and stops its wrong policies,” the hacker added.
Below are screenshots showing the bank’s site were down:
Identity of hackers remain unknown, but in an email HackRead was told there will be new and more powerful cyber attacks on Saudi financial institutions to put an end to violations of human rights in the Kingdom.
At the time of publishing this article, the Bank AlJazira was restored and available online.
Source: https://www.hackread.com
Saturday, July 27, 2013
As cyber attacks detonate, banks gird for battle
Banks large and small are girding for an elaborate drill this week that will test how they would fare if hackers unleashed a powerful and coordinated attack against them.
The exercise is being called "Quantum Dawn 2," and if the name sounds like a video game, it's also meant to convey the seriousness of the threat.
Cyberattacks on the banking industry are growing more frequent and sophisticated and the list of assailants is ever-changing: crime bosses who want money, "hacktivists" who want to make political statements, foreign governments that want to spy on U.S. companies. A successful, widespread attack on the industry would shake confidence in the banking system, and the possibility has banks and regulators on edge.
Thursday, January 3, 2013
PNC website was attacked today by Al-Qassam Group
Huge cyber attacks made by Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters continues aiming American banks and financial institutes. Although PNC did his best but a minute ago its website went out of reach again due to Al-Qassam Group attack.
Al-Qassam Group's uninterrupted attacks will be continued until the removal of that sacrilegious movie.
Thursday, December 27, 2012
Cyber Attacks Continue On Israel
Israel for weeks now has been a main focus for a lot of hacktivist from all walks of life and many different corners of the world. Many hacktivist from Anonymous to other collectives have joined to attack Israel’s cyber space after the recent attacks on the Gaza strip.
Over the past couple of weeks the attacks have continued on leaving many sites offline, defaced or with data being leaked but mostly defacement’s have been taking place as a way to spread a common message, stop the war.
The recent attacks have been not only on Israeli based sites but some new Zealand Australian and Italian websites have also been breached and left defaced.There has been a claimed leak of credit cards from a Israeli based website (http://www.yasam.co.il) which is a complete database extraction with some minor details that has been posted to pastebin.
A few sites got “tango down” as well,
elal.co.il
tamas.gov.il
Sunday, December 16, 2012
The probable changes in targets of cyber attacks
The recent attacks of an Islamic group such as AL-Qasam to American banks has been entered in its second phase while in spite of this point that the American Banks had been warned formerly, so far they have not been able to prevent against these destructive attacks.
However Al-Qassam group say these attacks will be continued in future and till the film insulting to Prophet of Islam will be removed from YouTube, but there is such a probability that if the expectation of Al-Qasam would not be carried out, they will change their targets in the future.
Still, it is not so clear that what the changes are, but if the attacks will be going to develop, definitely the effect of the attacks will be much more and the defense against them will be so much harder.
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