DHS: ‘OpUSA’ May Be More Bark Than Bite
Summary: A confidential DHS alert dated May 1 warns that a group of mostly Middle East- and North Africa-based criminal hackers plans an "OpUSA" campaign starting May 7 against websites of US government agencies, financial institutions, and commercial entities, and predicts the attacks likely will cause limited disruptions and consist mostly of nuisance-level activity against public webpages. The alert follows an April 21 Pastebin manifesto from a group calling itself N4M3LE55 CR3W, and DHS reports that 46 US financial institutions have been hit with over 200 separate DDoS attacks since September 2012 using the Brobot and Kamikaze/Toxin botnets.
What you should know: Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters, the group behind seven months of DDoS attacks on US banks, told Softpedia it plans to lend its firepower to OpUSA, and Neustar's Rodney Joffe said the damage that group is capable of may be out of proportion with its skills but has been brutally damaging.
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