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The online sites of the nation's biggest banks seem to be functioning without interruption following a hacktivist threat to launch a series of cyberattacks on financial institutions and government agencies.

American Banker

May 8, 2013 02:00 PM

Hacktivist groups under the Anonymous umbrella had warned they would take down major U.S. government and financial websites today in what they dubbed the OpUSA hacking campaign. But in the end, it was just a few defacements of lesser-known websites and seemingly random dumps of personal information ...

Dark Reading

May 7, 2013 02:00 PM

A group of activist hackers kicked off an ambitious cyber operation on Tuesday that targets a slew of high-profile American targets, including major government agencies and dozens of U.S. financial-services companies.

Fox Business

May 7, 2013 02:00 PM

The OperationUSA attack that the hacktivist group Anonymous announced would hit U.S. government and banking institution websites on May 7 apparently never gained traction.

Bank Info Security

May 7, 2013 02:00 PM

A collective of hacker groups plans to attack the websites of major government agencies and banks on Tuesday to protest American foreign policy.

The Huffington Post

May 6, 2013 02:00 PM

Banks may be about to endure yet another cyberattack by hacktivist groups. The hacker collective Anonymous has joined with groups throughout the Middle East and North Africa to vow a series of so-called denial of service attacks this Tuesday against financial institutions, other U.S. firms and ...

American Banker

May 6, 2013 02:00 PM

Anonymous' failed attack against Israeli websites last month has left security experts cautiously optimistic that the hacktivist group will be unsuccessful in its plans to disrupt U.S. government and banking sites.

CSO

May 3, 2013 02:00 PM

Security experts say that OperationUSA, a coordinated online attack against banking and government websites slated for May 7, is a serious threat. As a result, organizations should be upping their distributed-denial-of-service attack mitigation strategies to guard against the attacks, which are ...

Bank Info Security

May 2, 2013 02:00 PM