Article Review of Denial of Service Attack Assignment
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Added on 2020-04-01
Article Review of Denial of Service Attack Assignment
Added on 2020-04-01
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Recent denial of cyber-attacks has been done on Lloyds and Barclays banks as has been reported by theguardian. Briton Daniel Kaye has been extradited from Germany for purpose of blackmailing these banks[ CITATION www17 \l 1033 ]. The mastermind in these cyber-attacks has disrupted 20 million accounts hence will face charges in the UK. On January 11th to 13th, Llyods, Halifax along with Banks of Scotland were faced with millions of requests that aimed to grind group’s system to halt, which is more popularly referred to as denial of service attack (DDoS). Lloyds had to be paying GBP75,000 in bitcoins for calling off the attack, but it did not pay the same. Barclays was faced with similar charges in same month[ CITATION Law10 \l 1033 ]. Charges for such attacks had been investigated by National Crime Agency (NCA) with support from Germany’s BKA which is its federal investigatory police authority. Kaye remained in custody and he will be facing charges at Westminster magistrate. In this attack the perpetrator made banks resources unavailable to its end users by disrupting service to the host connection to the Internet. Incoming traffic flooded the bank from varied sources generating millions of requests[ CITATION Arm12 \l 1033 ]. Blackmailing was the sole reason for this denial of cyber-attack that led to bank’s disruption in service. Last year November Lonestar Cell MTN had also experienced a series of repeated attacks of DDoS. This crime was cross border and complex in nature, where team of cybercrime officers had to analyze reams of data. These cybercrimes targets various victims often impacting lives of millions. Mirai botnet was a type of malware which used to conscript internet-connected devices forming botnets that could easily be controlled in a centralized manner. Lloyds Banking Group highlighted that their subsequent DDoS attacks have been defended successfully but resulted in temporary as well as intermittent service issues for their customers[ CITATION Ray08 \l 1033 ]. Bank’s systems could not be accessedeasily which resulted in service issue for customers as certain accounts had been compromised. 2 | Page
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