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Finextra also BBC

Banks and exchanges among DDoS attack victims

The New York Stock Exchange, Nasdaq and US Bank Web sites are among the victims of a sustained computer attack targeted at American and South Korean organisations.

According to reports, South Korean intelligence officials believe North Korean or pro-Pyongyang forces are behind the distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks that have hit dozens of Web sites over the last few days.

The perpetrators are understood to have used a virus to create a botnet made up of tens of thousands of infected computers, which then overloaded targeted Web sites with millions of requests.

Check that your anti virus definitions are up to date, and that the relevant updates have been applied as a first step, the next thing is to watch the server estate/web applications you have to check that they are operating ok and as expected.

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