A massive cyber attack hit top five Russian banks this week, global internet security giant Kaspersky reported on Friday, adding that these attacks were still going on.
The distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack began on Tuesday and targeted “the websites of at least five well-known financial institutions in the top 10” in Russia, according to a statement released by Moscow-based Kaspersky to Taiwannews.com.
DDoS attacks attempt to cripple machines or network resources by flooding them with requests from multiple IP addresses. Taiwan, the US, India and Israel accounted for more than half of the attacks. From more than 24,000 hijacked devices located in 30 countries, 666,000 requests were being sent per second using botnet.