Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters continue their attacks against US banks

Apr 19, 2013 11:50 GMT  ·  By

Despite the fact that they don’t get as much media coverage as they did when they first launched Operation Ababil, hackers of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters group are not giving up on their objective to get the “Innocence of Muslims” movie removed from the Web.

It’s the 7th week since they’ve initiated the third phase of the campaign and they keep launching distributed denial-of-service attacks against the public-facing websites of US financial institutions.

According to the latest statement they’ve posted on Pastebin, last week the hacktivists attacked Regions, American Express, KeyCorp, Ameriprise, and HSBC.

This week, Hilf-ol-Fozoul reports that they’ve launched attacks against Wells Fargo, Regions, Citizens Bank, M&T Bank and Ameriprise.

Some reports say that the hackers might also take part in the upcoming OpUSA. We’ve asked them via email to confirm their participation, but so far, they haven’t responded to our inquiry.