It came out of nowhere and then it took down the website of $1.5 billion University Federal Credit Union "for around two and one-half hours," said a spokesperson.
What appeared to be the same purportedly Iranian group that in recent months has taken down Bank of America, PNC, Capital One and assorted money center institutions bragged about the exploit online, at a website experts told Credit Union Times has commonly been used to post news of such takedowns.
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The experts acknowledged they knew none of the specifics of the UFCU take down but, they said, to all appearances this is the work of the cybercriminals who have been said to be linked to Iran.
What does this UFCU attack mean? "The attackers are definitely going after softer targets," said Rich Bolstridge, a DDoS expert with network traffic company Akamai in Cambridge, Mass.
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