More than 100 Financial Services Firms Hit with DDoS Extortion Attacks RESTON, Va., Feb. 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- FS-ISAC, the only global cyber intelligence sharing community solely focused on financial services, announced today that last year, more than 100 financial services firms were targets of a wave of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) extortion attacks conducted by the same threat actor. The criminals sent extortion notes threatening to disrupt the firms' websites and digital services. The threat actor methodically moved across jurisdictions in Europe, North America, Latin America, and Asia Pacific, hitting dozens of institutions within weeks. They targeted the full gamut of financial services companies: banks, fintechs, exchanges, card issuers, payments companies, insurance companies, credit bureaus, asset managers, money transfer companies, and payroll companies.