Major Banks Under Renewed Cyber Attack Targeting Websites

The websites of major U.S. banks are facing a new round of cyber attacks linked to the same group responsible for similar assaults earlier this year.

The latest attacks started last week and have hit Bank of America Corp., SunTrust Banks Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co., U.S. Bancorp, Wells Fargo & Co. and PNC Financial Services Group Inc., according to two executives at companies providing security to some of the targeted banks, who asked for anonymity because they weren’t authorized to discuss clients and didn’t want their companies to become targets of computer assaults. PNC was under attack today, the executives said.