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Russia Says Thwarted Fresh Cyber Attacks On Major Banks

Accepted submission by Phoenix666 at 2016-12-09 13:47:09
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Russia's telecom operator on Friday said that it had blocked a series of cyber attacks on the country's leading banks this week [securityweek.com], the latest to target the country's financial sector.

Rostelecom said in a statement that it "successfully thwarted DDoS (distributed denial of service) on the five biggest banks and financial organisations in Russia" on December 5.

"The most sustained attack lasted more than two hours," it said.

Russia's FSB security service last week said it had uncovered plans [securityweek.com] by foreign intelligence services to carry out massive cyber attacks targeting the country's financial system from December 5.


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