Cyber attack said to have disrupted web services at Lloyds Banking
London — Lloyds Banking Group was hit by a cyber attack that disrupted online services for customers almost two weeks ago, a person with knowledge of the matter said, amid mounting concern over the threat hackers pose to major banks. Britain’s largest mortgage lender was targeted by a denial-of-service attack, which aims to cripple an online system by flooding it with traffic, said the person, who asked not to be identified because the details were not public. To defend its systems, Lloyds used geo-blocking tactics to prevent web requests from servers in locations used in the assault and scrubbing techniques to cleanse incoming data, the person added. Britain’s biggest banks have been hurt by a string of outages, some attributed to obsolete software and others to malicious activity by hackers, prompting legislators to call for more spending on technology and closer supervision of computer systems by board members. The Bank of England has also identified cybercrime as a serious threa...
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