A group calling itself "Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters announced another distributed-denial-of-service(DDOS) attack against major banks as part of second week of the Phase 2 of Operation Ababil.



"Originally, we sympathize deeply with families of the schoolchildren victimized by the horrible happening of Sandy Hook Elementary school. It’s very clear that a system which its rulers and capitalists are the owners of weaponry big companies never care about occurrence of these events." The hackers said.



"The attacks will be persistent till eliminating injustice and stopping the insults to the prophet of mercy and removing the offensive film, and we are sure that we will reach to our goals. "



According to the hacker statement, the attacks of this week will be as wide as previous week. Hackers didn't mention the name of target banks.



"The 5 major US banks will be attacked and we subsequently suggest that from now on they prepare their context of sorrowfulness to the customers of banks because of inaccessibility."



Last week, the same group launched DDoS attack against 5 major US banks including U.S. Bancorp, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, PNC Financial Services Group and SunTrust Banks.