[Full-disclosure] Financial firms warned of Qaeda cyber attack

[Juha-Matti Laurio]

>From the Reuters article:
"WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government warned American private financial services on Thursday of an al Qaeda call for a cyber attack against online stock trading and banking Web sites beginning on Friday, a source said."

Reportedly DHS confirmed an alert had been distributed but said there was no reason to believe the threat was credible.

More at
http://today.reuters.com/News/newsArticle.aspx?type=internetNews&storyID=2006-12-01T061519Z_01_WBT006236_RTRUKOC_0_US-SECURITY-USA-QAEDA.xml&WTmodLoc=InternetNewsHome_C1_%5bFeed%5d-8


SANS Internet Storm Center (ISC) has issued the following Diary entries,
several references included:

>From ISC director Marcus H. Sachs:
http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?storyid=1900

and "US DHS banking alert" entry released earlier by Johannes Ullrich:
http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?storyid=1899

- Juha-Matti