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Botnets for hire likely attacked U.S. banks | Sonatype Blog

Written by Ali Loney | January 09, 2013

IDG News Service – (International) Botnets for hire likely attacked U.S. banks. A recent campaign of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on U.S. banks appears to be using botnets for hire, according to an analysis by security firm Incapsula.