Cyberattack-Weary Bankers Roll Their Eyes as Trump Goads Hackers
To bankers, Donald Trump's comments Wednesday encouraging Russian hackers were a bit like someone tweeting out the address to an already-packed party.
As it stands, the cybersecurity climate is an all-hands-on-deck situation, so one more threat — even one prompted by one of the loudest voices in the country — may not matter much.
"We know that our community bank is attacked every day by Russian, Chinese and North Korean cyber hacker teams and it is my understanding that every community bank and credit union in the U.S. is under a similar relentless daily attack," said Stephen Lange Ranzini, president of the $140 million-asset University Bank in Ann Arbor, Mich. "These attacks won't increase or decrease based on anything Donald Trump says."
