SAN FRANCISCO — The attackers hit one American bank after the next. As in so many previous attacks, dozens of online banking sites slowed, hiccupped or ground to a halt before recovering several minutes later.
But there was something disturbingly different about the wave of online attacks on American banks in recent weeks. Security researchers say that instead of exploiting individual computers, the attackers engineered networks of computers in data centers, transforming the online equivalent of a few yapping Chihuahuas into a pack of fire-breathing Godzillas.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/09/t...-were-work-of-iran-us-officials-say.html?_r=0
A recently revealed photo from one of secret Iranian Cyber Army centers in which different teams are on duty
But there was something disturbingly different about the wave of online attacks on American banks in recent weeks. Security researchers say that instead of exploiting individual computers, the attackers engineered networks of computers in data centers, transforming the online equivalent of a few yapping Chihuahuas into a pack of fire-breathing Godzillas.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/09/t...-were-work-of-iran-us-officials-say.html?_r=0
A recently revealed photo from one of secret Iranian Cyber Army centers in which different teams are on duty