The Treasury has attributed the distributed denial of service attacks to Killnet, the Russian hacker group that claimed responsibility for disrupting the websites of several US states and airports in October.The Treasury has attributed the distributed denial of service attacks to Killnet, the Russian hacker group that claimed responsibility for disrupting the websites of several US states and airports in October.
Killnet claimed on October 11 that it had attacked JP Morgan Chase & Co’s network infrastructure, but the bank reported no impact on its operations. “It confirmed that we’re on the right track with how we’re trying to actually share tactical information with the sector in real time with the mind that we are interconnected and face the same threat actors,” Conklin said, adding that this information includes downgraded intelligence and details on adversaries.