Lloyds bank hit by DDoS attack

The Lloyds Banking Group fell victim to a massive cyberattack this week, that was responsible for temporarily disrupting its services. The attack is being attributed to an international hacking group. It launched a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against the company's online services that lasted for two days. During this time, customers were reportedly unable to make payments online or check their account balances. Although information regarding the attack has just been made public, the bank was actually targeted by hackers around two weeks ago. Lloyds was not the only high street lender targeted by the group, but it was… [Continue Reading]