{"id":11172,"date":"2012-09-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/cyber-operations\/denial-of-service-attacks-against-u-s-banks-in-2012-2013\/"},"modified":"2012-09-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-18T00:00:00","slug":"denial-of-service-attacks-against-u-s-banks-in-2012-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cfr.org\/cyber-operations\/denial-of-service-attacks-against-u-s-banks-in-2012-2013","title":{"rendered":"Denial of service attacks against U.S. banks in 2012\u20132013"},"content":{"rendered":"

The websites of Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, and other U.S. financial institutions suffered simultaneous outages due to a coordinated denial of service cyberattack in September 2012. Attackers flooded bank servers with junk traffic, preventing users from online banking. An Iranian group called Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters initially claimed responsibility<\/a> for the incident. At the time, the media reported that U.S. intelligence believed the denial of service was in response to U.S. imposed economic sanctions<\/a> to counter Iran\u2019s nuclear program. Seven Iranian individuals linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps were eventually indicted<\/a> by the U.S. Department of Justice in 2016 for their involvement in the incident. <\/p>\n

The denial of service attacks against U.S. banks is significant for two reasons. First, the size and scale of the attacks led the State Department to seek other countries\u2019 assistance in taking down the compromised computers that were flooding the banks with junk traffic. Second, the attacks would indicate that Iran\u2014if it was in fact using the attacks as retaliation for U.S. financial sanctions\u2014was acting proportionally in its dispute with the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The websites of Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, and other U.S. financial institutions suffered simultaneous outages due to a coordinated denial of service cyberattack in September 2012. Attackers flooded bank servers with junk traffic, preventing users from online banking. An Iranian group called Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters initially claimed responsibility for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cloudinary_featured_overwrite":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"cyber_operation":[40],"state_sponsor":[76],"victim_category":[138],"victim_government_response":[194],"victim":[182],"class_list":["post-11172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-incident","cyber_operation-denial-of-service","state_sponsor-iran-islamic-republic-of","victim_category-private-sector","victim_government_response-yes","victim-united-states"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cfr.org\/cyber-operations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cfr.org\/cyber-operations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cfr.org\/cyber-operations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cfr.org\/cyber-operations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cfr.org\/cyber-operations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cfr.org\/cyber-operations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cfr.org\/cyber-operations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cfr.org\/cyber-operations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cfr.org\/cyber-operations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11172"},{"taxonomy":"cyber_operation","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cfr.org\/cyber-operations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cyber_operation?post=11172"},{"taxonomy":"state_sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cfr.org\/cyber-operations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/state_sponsor?post=11172"},{"taxonomy":"victim_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cfr.org\/cyber-operations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/victim_category?post=11172"},{"taxonomy":"victim_government_response","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cfr.org\/cyber-operations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/victim_government_response?post=11172"},{"taxonomy":"victim","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cfr.org\/cyber-operations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/victim?post=11172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}