The White House website and eight other federal government sites, plus those of 133 U.S. banking institutions, are listed as targets in an April 24 Anonymous Pastebin [1] post.
Security experts say that OperationUSA [2], a coordinated online attack against banking and government websites slated for May 7, is a serious threat. As a result, organizations should be upping their distributed-denial-of-service attack [3] mitigation strategies to guard against the attacks, which are being coordinated by the hacktivist group Anonymous.
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[1] http://pastebin.com/LXHKjsfg
[2] http://pastebin.com/c5AUeqDS
[3] http://www.bankinfosecurity.com/fbi-ddos-botnet-has-been-modified-a-5719/op-1
[4] http://www.matthewaid.com/post/49519697113/cyber-attack-on-us-banks-and-government-websites
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