Authorities in Russia claimed Friday they had uncovered a foreign spy agency plot to launch a cyberattack on the country’s banking system.
The servers to be used in the alleged attack were located in the Netherlands and registered to BlazingFast, a Ukrainian web hosting company, Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said in a statement.
The aim of the attack was to sow chaos in Russia’s banking system, the FSB claimed, and major national and provincial banks in several cities were to be targeted.
“It was planned that the cyberattack would be accompanied by a mass send-out of SMS messages and publications in social …read more
Source: European Voice
