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by Agency Staff, May 19 2013, 18:23
WASHINGTON — The series of cyber attacks that repeatedly knocked major US banking websites offline in the past nine months had been more powerful than the public realised, government officials and security experts told the Reuters Cybersecurity Summit on Friday.
A self-described activist group, Cyber Fighters of Izz ad-Din al-Qassam, has claimed credit for the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that took down the websites of more than a dozen US banks for hours or even days at a time.
Members of congressional intelligence committees said the attacks were sponsored by Iran and showed its growing capability in cyberspace.
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