The accepted opinion among security professionals is that most credit unions will get a free pass to dodge the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) blitzkrieg that has been knocking big banks offline and that is because the attackers have exhibited a strong preference for hitting targets that – when they go down – generate headlines, like Bank of America or Capital One.

Knockdown a $100 million teachers' credit union and the press will yawn.

Except, in conversations with Credit Union Times, several security professionals suggested that if most of the credit union industry were taken out, that would win headlines aplenty — and the way to do it, they suggested, might be to aim DDoS at a handful of corporate credit unions.