ETrade and St George service hit by DDOS Cyber attack

The offshore Cyber attack which forced Australia's Second Biggest online broking business  , ANZ Bank to shutdown its broking business ETrade, also caused rival bank St George to close its Directshares online broking service.

"The shutdown was prompted by thousands of emails bombarding the broking site, in a denial-of-service attack(DD0S). The lockout was first noticed by ETrade customers trying to access the site overseas, as the bank shut off access to all overseas users. One frustrated customer emailed BusinessDay on December 31, saying that he was trying to prepare a tax return while in the US and Canada and still couldn't access his account." theage report says.


Yesterday only, ETrade informed about the attack to its customers and apologizing for inconvenience.

"You may have experienced issues accessing our website in recent weeks, particularly from overseas," the email said.

"The performance of our website was impacted by external malicious activity in a denial-of-service attack. A denial-of-service attack is where millions of messages are sent to the website in an attempt to disrupt service. As a result, we took the necessary steps to protect our clients and ensure your data remained secure.

"Immediate action was taken to restrict access from some overseas locations, but given the nature of the incident we were restricted in what we could communicate with you at the time. Importantly, at no stage was the security of the Etrade website breached."

According to The Sydney Morning Herald report, Yesterday, St George revealed that its online trading service is provided by Etrade, also affected by this DDOS attack. ETrade shut down the business to various countries from December 19, bringing it back online following risk assessments.

A St George spokesman said the broking service offered by Westpac, Westpac Online Investing, operated on a different system and was not affected.

"At no stage was the security of the Directshares website breached. Customer information, data and funds were not compromised or affected in any way," he said.

"We don't yet know the motivations for the attack or where the attack originated, but we are awaiting further information from external parties who are investigating."

Both National Australia Bank and Commonwealth Bank told BusinessDay they had not experienced an attack on their systems.

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Anonymous Hit The Biotech Giant Monsanto (#OpEndMonsanto)

Hacktivist Anonymous claimed New Attack on Biotech Giant Monsanto. According to a new message posted on Pastebin Anon has renewed its campaign against the Monsanto corporation.

"Operation End Monsanto is still very much up and running.  Pwnage will continue indefinitely," read Anonymous' opening statement. Continuing: "First Victim: Bivings Corporation. Bivings Corp is(was) a PR firm of 15+years that worked with some very high profile clients, Monsanto used them heavily." Later said Anonymous. As well as defacing Bivings' website, the hackers also released data containing "hundreds" of emails and a number of alleged Monsanto documents.

Anonymous Press Release:-

"Operation End Monsanto is still very much up and running.  Pwnage will continue indefinitely.
First Victim: Bivings Corporation
Bivings Corp is(was) a PR firm of 15+years that worked with some very high profile clients, Monsanto used them heavily.  
PEW PEW PEW
bai
admin@dev-monsantouk.bivings.com
PASSWORD: surekha1
dev-monsantouk.bivings.com/admin "Maintain Monsanto Documents"
http://devmonsantouk.bivings.com
Site Database hacked/dumped
hundreds of emails stolen viewable on i2p eepsite (opmonsanto satori wiki)
Database of Monsanto documents acquired by Anonymous
Servers rooted
Site defaced:
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=20hoso2&s=7


TANGO DOWN: Permanently
http://devmonsantouk.bivings.com
1 week after we pwned them:
"Our Cyber Infrastructure has recently been put under attack.  We are evaluating the extent of the intrusion, and apologise for any downtime and issues this may cause you.  It is not yet determined what the motives behind the attack are, or what, if any data has been compromised.  We will continue to keep you up to date, and sicerely apologise for any inconvenience."
A few days later:
"The Bivings Group Hands Over the Reins to The Brick Factory"
Bivings corp shuts down all servers, liquidates assets, and some former employees move on to start a new company, "The brick factory".
This is after 15+years of running marketing campaigns and helping some of the most corrupt corporations on the planet, as well as several governmental agencies, cover up their dirt.
We accidently  the entire Bivings Group Corporation
That is how you do it, gentlemen.
Also
Random  database of Monsanto employee's/associates, and others.  Can be used for SE:
https://pastee.org/nf6c5......"

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Russian Political Sites under massive DDoS Attack

 

Russian Political Sites under DDOS cyber attack during the Country's Parliamentary elections. DDOS attack hits Russian radio station Moscow Echo and election-monitoring group Golos, the website of opposition weekly New Times as well as several other sites on Sunday.

"The attack on the website on election day is clearly an attempt to inhibit publication of information about violations," Moscow Echo editor-in-chief Alexei Venediktov wrote on Twitter.

Golos said it was the victim of a similar "distributed denial of service" (DDoS) attack, while several other opposition news sites were down. The Moscow Echo is popular among the liberal opposition although it is owned by state gas giant Gazprom.

After the close of polls on Sunday, the Moscow Echo website was working again but the Golos website was still inaccessible.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, whose United Russia party is expected to win Sunday's polls but with a reduced majority, has denounced non-governmental organisations like Golos, comparing them to the disciple Judas who betrayed Jesus.

Russia has seen an upsurge in Internet penetration since the last elections in 2007, and analysts have said the explosion of critical material on the web poses one of the biggest challenges to United Russia's grip on power.

Golos said on Twitter that its main website as well as the "Map of Violations" site detailing claims of fraud across Russia were under "massive DDoS attacks".

Golos head Liliya Shibanova said the authorities seemed especially angry at their Map of Violations project, where people could upload any information or evidence of election violations.

"It's a very expensive operation," Shibanova said of the attacks. "It's a big organisation with plenty of means that must have done it."

Shibanova, who was held for nearly 12 hours Saturday by customs officials who also confiscated her computer, said the attack consisted of 50,000 hits per second by computers attempting to access the Golos website.

The website of opposition weekly New Times, known to publish investigative reports about government officials and feature columns by jailed oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky was inaccessable for several hours Sunday.

Business daily Kommersant was not working for the fourth consecutive day after it was hacked on Thursday. Hackers switched its IP address.

Moscow Echo filed a complaint to the Central Election Committee demanding to open a criminal case into the attacks, and editor Venediktov said he complained directly to the spokespeople of Putin and President Dmitry Medvedev.

The radio station is popular with the liberal opposition, though it is owned by the media arm of state-controlled Russian gas giant Gazprom.

"Any hacker attack on any resource leads to financial losses, which is essentially the same as stealing," said the chairman of Moscow Echo's board of directors Nikolai Senkevich, adding that Gazprom's media holding "fully supports" the station's concern.

Pro-Kremlin youth activists also complained on Twitter that the opposition ordered an attack on their website chronicling violations by the opposition parties, although the website was fully accessible.

Russian bloggers also complained of their inability to access their accounts on popular blogging platform Livejournal.com. The website has been a victim of repeated DDoS attacks throughout the week and worked intermittently.

"The goal of the attackers is clear," Anton Nossik, the media director of Livejournal owner SUP, wrote on his blog, alleging that the perpetrators are a "group of criminals" who are "probably fattened by the federal budget."

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