[Torwaldson]

The DDoS attacks that hit ABN Amro, ING and Rabobank over the weekend and on Monday, came from servers in Russia, according to security company ESET. The company adds that this does not automatically mean that the perpetrators are also in Russia, the Telegraaf reports.
The perpetrators used a so-called botnet - an army of hijacked computers and smart devices - to commit the DDoS attacks. Using the program Zbot, they remotely ordered these devices to visit a certain site en masse, thereby overloading the site's server and crashing the site. The command and control servers are mainly in Russia, ESET determined.
Full reading: https://nltimes.nl/2018/01/29/russian-servers-linked-ddos-attack-netherlands-financial-network-report

[mothered]

This doesn't surprise me, DDoS attacks will continue.

It's not only the Inconvenience to It's customers, but the financial loss due to downtime that's of concern to companies of this nature.