Major cyberattack on select US banks

[mosquito]

Posted by Paul (here)

Posted by Earth Angel (here)
IF this was in fact a terrorist act against the US banks I would imagine they might do something like delete some mortgages and debts....the banks would have a hell of a time the way the sell mortgages tracking them down and following up......if however its a false flag, they just want to upset people enough without actually causing the bank to lose money ??

The current attacks are "denial of service" attacks, which can be run against any website without having any specific knowledge of security vulnerabilities of the site. Even the "big boys" of the web, such as Yahoo, have been hit with such attacks at times. All the attacker needs is control of a few thousand "zombie" PC's ... which are PC's that ban be taken control of by some virus, usually without the PC owner noticing. One can purchase blocks of such zombie PC's on the black market, so I'm told. You purchase your block, send instructions to all of them to all start sending a lot of requests to the same target website at the same time, and the target website is struggling under the load.

Actually stealing money would require breaking into the bank's website, which is quite a bit harder, and requires substantial custom effort that will vary with each bank. One could not target a "bank a day", like they are doing here.

Agreed. Another point is that the real meaty computing takes place on enterprise systems (what used to be called mainframes), which are not hackable in the sense that a teenager can sit at a PC and just access the system, despite what Hollywood wants you to believe ! If it was going to happen, it would have happened loooong ago, and it would't have been "terrorists", it would have been people with the know how.

[sigma6]

Another angle that this serves:

Too many people are finding financial freedom and making huge money from the internet, you know what happens when too many people find financial freedom, especially when they are NON freemason aligned, NON wall street aligned, NON western people? who find too much financial freedom....
learning how to make money like the "rich" do ... ie. leveraging other people's efforts, residual, copyright license, publishing, etc...
the scumbag banking families pyramid control structure becomes threatened and exposed...

that Rockefeller scumbag is still trying to put controls on what was a free public resource, paid for with public funds, what a scumbag, what a piece of human crap...
they want to control it, but I don't think they have the full technological capability to do so right now... that's the problem for them right now,

so they can only impose controls, policing systems, try to upset the stability, always in preparation, until their trillions can produce the technology...
(which I don't think is going to happen for quite some time yet...) this is a most serious false flag attack on net freedom...

If I am correct they will start announcing more internet controls, higher costs, tax schemes, or mentally preparing us for the justification to do so...

[sigma6]

Posted by Wakytweaky (here)

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)

Posted by Rocky_Shorz (here)
it would be fun to wake up and find $500,000 sitting in my bank account...

That happened to a friend of mine in the UK about ten years ago. She found she'd had £300,000 (well over half a million dollars) suddenly deposited into her account overnight. She called the bank, and it was a mistake. They were highly embarrassed.

She said the most interesting part of her story was her friends' different reactions(!). Everyone had a different suggestion about what she should have done. (My own suggestion was to have called a lawyer to see if the money was legally hers or not, and whether she would have committed a crime if she had not reported it.)

I have worked at a bank on a blue Monday some years ago and in some cases that money would have been legally hers, but the bank would have used huge pressure to get her to return the money to sender.
For instance, when someone gave orders for a bank transfer (a client of the bank) to pay an amount to a certain bank account number and he used the wrong number, didn't specify with a name and address of recipient, then the money would have been legally hers.
Would the bank have allowed her to get away with it? Highly unlikely.

ehh

She should have put a down payment on a house and put aside funds for an expensive lawyer as a backup,

[Rocky_Shorz]

I'd offer to leave the money in the account if they gave me a percentage of the 40-1 hypothication, which would have paid back the $500K in a few months...

oh wait we aren't supposed to know that game...


Ponzi can be fun, if you're too big to jail...

[sigma6]

problem is they will remove it as soon as they discover their error... but if you used it, they could never prove they loaned you anything.... since they didn't.

I remember a case when we were working on being issued checks to put toward home purchases that were going to be put into a private trust.

One lady got so far as depositing it in her bank and paid off $20,000 in CC's, before they starting raising questions... they took the money out and tried to go after her for the cards. She demanded to know why were they dishonouring the cheque. They never got the money back from the cards and never moved against her on them either... interesting...

[ThePythonicCow]

Alex Jones (Infowars.com) has an article on this cyberattack on US banks. Here's the main stream ABC news video report they include:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Fg3tpUCt8wY

And here's what Inforwars.com say about this here:

Over a month ago we featured an article titled The NWO Agenda Would Move Forward with This One Simple Act, which stated the one event that could accomplish all of the agenda’s goals in one shot would be “a false flag cyber attack on Western banking institutions that they can pin on Iran.”

With President Obama ready to sign an executive order to control the Internet in the name of cyber security, could it be more obvious that this “cyber attack” is a total set up? Especially since all versions of Internet control legislation have failed to pass in normal government channels bothdomestically and internationally.

Are we expected to believe that sophisticated Muslim hacktivists attacked US banks because they were angry about a movie that was produced in America? That’d be like attacking Afghanistan or Iraq after 15 Saudis supposedly attacked us, ohh wait…that did happen.

Is this really the best story they can come up with? It was so predictable that it makes it that much more laughable. But the motive being pinned on the pathetic anti-Muslim movie is the real kicker.

It’s sad to see Richard Clark in the video above actually take this seriously. Talk about an establishment sellout.

I call major bull**** on this story. It stinks to high heaven. What do you think?

[sandy]

I can smell the B. S. all the way into North Western Canada it is so strong!!

[Jean-Luc]

Nice 4 minutes preventive video to be shared to avoid this to happen.

[CD7]

Something such as this...i would very much suspect an inside job

People who work in IT....do u know how compartmentalized the internet banking system is?

I know someone who works for IT in banks.....the system is HIGHLY COMPARTMENTALIZED...a hacker being able to break through ALL barriers..lol-----inside job

[sleepy]

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[CD7]

Every FACET of ourselves has been taken over...we are conditioned from drop out....WHY DO WE CONTINUE TO HASH OVER THINGS THAT ALREADY ARE....these articles crack me up

Hummmmm do we really need more control?? you mean were not brainwashed enough??? OUR FREEDOM HAS ALREADY BEEN COMPROMISED A LONG TIME AGO....

The only purpose of such writings is to keep the anxiety going...perpetuate fear everlasting KEEP THE GAME GOING

The deeds have been done...ALL tht stands now is the cycling RETURN of whats been put out WILL come back to its senders

[sleepy]

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[CD7]

QUOTE=sleepy;562529]Christinedream7,

“Every FACET of ourselves has been taken over...”

Respectfully, I disagree. I have free will and every aspect of myself has not been taken over.


Is there any place on the globe where humans live free? There shelter is Free? Food is Free? (im not referring to people who scrape to survive in the wild) I cant think of any..if there are, most likely unknown to the masses.....can u be WHOEVER you want..do what you really want to do? Do you work for your OWN household and not someone else?
When i say this, im thinking along these lines...in the PHYSICAL REALM...majority of the population on this globe would answer no to many of these questions....when humanity is living in these conditions, they are not truly free...you are entitled to disagree and respect your input

I agree that our freedom has been compromised but I believe knowledge is power. Hummmmm i would think knowledge would be power too! let me know when you come across some that truly benefits humanity at large

While the orders are frightening… I am not afraid. I have never bought into any of the doomsday scenarios that have been put forth. People have been predicting the end of the world, the financial end, the end of America for years and guess what? We are still here.

I know, exactly!

That doesn’t mean that I have not been prudent in getting out of debt, learning to grow and preserve my own food and taking what I deem to be necessary steps. It has actually made me live a better life. No consumer debt relieves so much stress and I feel much better not paying interest to the bankers. Gardening and canning is a great hobby and it is one less GMO that does not go in my body.

I agree...did some of these things years ago...canned goods going bad now, not to say all in vein and nothing is going to happen

Information is just information. I don’t find it humorous nor do I want to put my head in the sand. I am glad the article gave you a good laugh. It is good to keep a sense of humor.
I did not share the article to keep anxiety going. If in fact the internet will be compromised there may be necessary, prudent, steps that should be taken to back up data, find ways of staying in touch and other things I feel I should do to be prepared in case one day I can’t log on to my computer. It doesn't make me anxious but it does make me think.

This is more geared towards the information and not you personally, i think any "alternative" forum member who has been associated with these sites for years every now and then has the, OH GAWD not this again reaction, Guilty! After a while when a person does whtever they can or desire too to plan for survival..whats the point after that? Its a continuation of anxiety PLAIN AND SIMPLE

sleepy[/QUOTE]

[OBwan]

Source: http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/...trojan-attack/

RSA: Cybercriminals plot massive banking Trojan attack

Gang plans to use sophisticated malware to initiate illegal wire transfers

An international gang of cyber crooks is plotting a major campaign to steal money from the online accounts of thousands of consumers at 30 or more major US banks, security firm RSA warned.

If successful, the effort could turn out to be one of the largest organized banking-Trojan operations to date, Mor Ahuvia, cybercrime communications specialist with RSA's FraudAction team, said today. The gang is now recruiting about 100 botmasters, each of whom would be responsible for carrying out Trojan attacks against US banking customers in return for a share of the loot, she said.

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Each botmaster will be backed by an "investor" who will provide money to buy the hardware and software needed for the attacks, Ahuvia said.

"This is the first time we are seeing a financially motivated cyber crime operation being orchestrated at this scale," Ahivia said. "We have seen DDoS attacks and hacking before. But we have never seen it being organized at this scale."

RSA's warning comes at a time when US banks are already on high alert. Over the past two weeks, the online operations of several major banks, including JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup and Wells Fargo were disrupted by what appeared to be coordinated denial-of-service attacks.

A little-known group called "Cyber fighters of Izz ad-din Al qassam" claimed credit for the attacks, but some security experts think a nation may have been behind the campaign because of the scale and organized nature of the attacks.

In mid-September, the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS-ISAC) warned banks to be on guard against cyberattackers seeking to steal employee network login credentials to conduct extensive wire transfer fraud. Specifically, the alert warned banks to watch out for hackers using spam, phishing emails, Remote Access Trojans and keystroke loggers to try and pry loose bank employee usernames and passwords.

FS-ISAC also noted that the FBI had seen a new trend where cyber criminals use stolen bank employee credentials to transfer hundreds of thousands of dollars from customer accounts to overseas locations.

Over the past few years, cyber crooks have siphoned off millions of dollars from small businesses, school districts and local governments by stealing online usernames and passwords and using those credentials to make the transfers.

The latest discussion suggests that they now have individual consumer accounts in their crosshairs, Ahuvia said, warning that the gang plans to attempt to infiltrate computers in the US with a little known Trojan malware program called Gozi Prinimalka.

The malware is an updated version of a much older banking Trojan, Gozi, which was used by cyber criminals to steal millions of dollars from US banks. The group's plan apparently is to plant the Trojan program on numerous websites and to infect computers when users visit those sites.

The Trojan is triggered when the user of an infected computer types out certain words -- such as the name of a specific bank -- into a URL string.

Unlike the original Gozi, the new version is capable not only of communicating with a central command-and-control server but also of duplicating the victim's PC settings. The Trojan essentially supports a virtual machine cloning feature that can duplicate the infected PC's screen resolutions, cookies, time zone, browser type and version and other settings. That allow the attacker to access a victim's bank website using a computer that appears to have the infected PC's real IP address and other settings, Ahuvia said.

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"Impersonated victims' accounts will thus be accessed via a SOCKS proxy connection installed on their infected PCs, enabling the cloned virtual system to take on the genuine IP address when accessing the bank's website," she said in her alert.

Victims of fraudulent wire transfers will not immediately know of the theft because the gang plans on using VoIP flooding software to prevent victims from getting bank notifications on their mobile devices, she added.

Consumers need to ensure that their browsers are properly updated to protect against drive by downloads, she said. They also need to watch for any suspicious behavior or transactions on their accounts.

RSA has also notified US law enforcement and its own FraudAction Global Blocking Network about the threat, she said. Banks, meanwhile, should consider implementing stronger authentication procedures and anomaly detection tools for spotting unusual wire transfers.

[ThePythonicCow]

Posted by OBwan (here)
A little-known group called "Cyber fighters of Izz ad-din Al qassam" claimed credit for the attacks, but some security experts think a nation may have been behind the campaign because of the scale and organized nature of the attacks.

Aw shucks ... ya think maybe?