CUNA made headlines with its warning about a planned May 7thDDoS – Distributed Denial of Service – attack that, said the tradegroup, was sufficiently worrisome that credit unions had to takesteps to be ready.
CUNA attributed the source of word of the threat to “chatterthat has been detected.”
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What chatter? That turns out to be comments not from theal Qassam Cyber Fighters – the group that has claimed the priorDDoS attacks that have knocked big U.S. banks and several creditunions offline in the past year.
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