Planned Cyberattacks on US Banks on Hold
Upwards of 30 major U.S. banks and financial institutions have been given a reprieve. The hacker behind a coordinated attack against giants such as Bank of America, Chase, Citibank, PNC, Wells Fargo and nearly two dozen other banks has called off the operation after media reports surfaced a month ago exposing the planned attacks.Known as vorVzakone, the Russian has pulled back on his attempt to recruit 100 botmasters for massive man-in-the-middle attacks against American banks. Security blog Krebs on Security named vorVzakone as the mastermind behind the wire-fraud campaign.“Based on a communication posted following the media hype, vorVzakone
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A #hacker planning a spate of attacks on US banks called off the operation after reports surfaced exposing his plan - http://t.co/2jab8w8t












