Bitcoin-exchange Mt. Gox has again become the victim of DDoS-attacks

E-currency exchange was not available for the users most of the day in April 11

Bitcoin-exchange Mt. Gox once again faced with a large-scale DDoS-attack, which began less than two hours after the resumption of the performance of service after the previous failure. April 11, the site was not available for Exchange users most of the day.

"We are faced with very large-scale DDoS-attack" - said representatives of Mt. Gox into account exchanges in Google +.

Mt. Gox halted trading on April 11 after the price of the first electronic currency fell by 61% and then increased by 37%. Recall that in the last four weeks Bitcoin price has risen to $ 266, and yesterday it was only $ 145.

Hackers attacked the website American Express

The New York Times reports today that a group of hackers on the eve for more than two hours to block access to the site of the payment system American Express, leaving many people in the U.S. and Canada could not arrange for payments using their cards.

The publication notes that the attack on the Amex, most likely a continuation of the campaign of Middle East hackers attacking American financial institutions. A few days earlier had been attacked servers bank JPMorgan Chase, which also reported that as a result of DDoS-attacks down withdrew its IT capacity. Recall that the first attack on U.S. financial institutions began last fall, and since then, the hacker group has conducted several campaigns to attack.

The biggest hacker attack slowed down the Internet

The largest in the history of the world hacking reduced data rate on the internet, according to BBC News. Investigating the incident handled by experts from five different countries.

The target of attack became Spamhaus company countering spam with offices in London and Geneva. To combat spam Spamhaus maintains a database, which entered the servers that are used to send spam messages. The company also supports a number of services that block suspicious mailing servers.

March 27, it became known that the servers Spamhaus were "the biggest DDoS-attack." CEO Steve Linford described it as unprecedented in scale to date.

U.S. bank Wells Fargo suffered DDoS-attack

Major U.S. bank Wells Fargo today announced that its online banking system faced an unusually high volume of traffic resulting from DDoS-attack.

"Much of the customers was not affected, as customer data remains secure," - said Bridget Braxton, a spokeswoman for Wells Fagro.

According to her, customers who can not use online banking at the moment, can try to access the system online resources later, maybe in a few hours.

Recall that in September last year, a group of Middle Eastern hacker Izz al-Din al-Qassam Cyber ​​Fightrers conducts periodic DDoS-attacks against U.S. banks. Tuesday at the site Pastebin.com hacker group published an article that it is for the bank Wells Fargo was chosen as the target for the attack this time.

In December, Wells Fargo has been attacked for four days.

Mideast hackers again attacked western banks

Middle Eastern hacker group al Qassam Cyber ​​Fighters in the past few days continued attacks against Western banks and directed its efforts against the new financial institutions of the Western world. Meanwhile, the Western media are increasingly saying that it was too long and powerful cyber organizing this group. Clearly, this group has great resources and good funding, perhaps even at the state level.

American banks since last fall with enviable frequency reported DDoS-attacks on its IT systems by hackers Middle East. Repeatedly hackers could permanently damage the online banking systems of large banks, which angered tens of thousands of customers who were not able to hold or receive payments.

March 5 al Qassam Cyber ​​Fighters reported another cyber-company start by posting on popular resource Pastebin message about the upcoming attack on the nine western banks. According to experts, now al Qassam Cyber ​​Fighters have much more powerful DDoS-channels. If before power DDos-traffic at al Qassam Cyber ​​Fighters rarely exceeds 10 Gbit / s, it now amounts to about 40 Gbit / s.