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'This is just the beginning' Anonymous hackers take down nine banks in 30-day cyber attack

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'This is just the beginning' Anonymous hackers take down nine banks in 30-day cyber attack
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HACKING group Anonymous claim they have taken down central banks in Germany, Greece and Cyprus as they carry out a 30-day worldwide cyber attack.

By Katie Mansfield

PUBLISHED: 17:45, Wed, May 11, 2016 | UPDATED: 17:52, Wed, May 11, 2016



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Anonymous claim to have taken down nine national banks during a worldwide cyber attack
The activist hacking group, who have joined forces with fellow hackers Ghost Squad Attackers, are targeting bank websites across the world.

In a co-ordinated strike called Operation Icarus the hackers took the Bank of Greece offline for a few minutes.

A Bank of Greece official said: "The attack lasted for a few minutes and was successfully tackled by the bank's security systems. The only thing that was affected by the denial-of-service attack was our website."


This is just the beginning


Anonymous originated in 2003, adopting the Guy Fawkes mask as their symbol for online hacking.

The cyber attackers said in a statement to AnonHQ.com: “This is just the beginning. We won’t stop until all focus is back on the banks where it belongs and all 'to big to jail' institutions are held accountable for their crimes.

"Now that we are uniting our groups, it will only be a matter of time before the whole international banking cartel who are responsible for worldwide economic terrorism, can expect to expect us.”

Days later the website of the Central Bank of Cyprus also briefly came under cyber attack.

The central bank's website came under "some form of a denial-of-service" attack, a spokeswoman said on Friday, via email.

She added the attack "resulted in some delays in user connections, but generally the website could handle the anticipated number of users for the day."

The group also claim they have taken down the central banks of New Zealand, Montenegro and France in recent days as well as the Guernsey Financial Services Commission.

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A Bank of Greece official confirmed the cyber attack
Operation Icarus comes as research reveals two thirds of large British businesses have experienced a cyber attack or breach in the last 12 months.

Findings from the Cyber Security Breaches Survey, undertaken by Ipsos Mori for the Government, show a quarter of large firms experiencing a cyber breach did so at least once a month.

In light of the findings, businesses are now being urged to better protect themselves.

Digital Economy Minister Ed Vaizey said: "The UK is a world-leading digital economy and this Government has made cyber security a top priority.

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The hacking group released a video launching Operation Icarus
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Operation Icarus has targeted banks across the world
"Too many firms are losing money, data and consumer confidence with the vast number of cyber attacks. It's absolutely crucial businesses are secure and can protect data."

It was also revealed that seven out of 10 attacks on all firms involved viruses, spyware or malware, could have been prevented, and how only a fifth of businesses have a clear view of the dangers of sharing information with third parties.

Over the next five years the Government has pledged to invest £1.9billion to tackle and prevent the crime, as well as a new National Cyber Security Centre which will offer security support.

Cyber security expert Steve Jewell, technical director at S-IA, a company that provides software used by Government departments including the Treasury and the Ministry of Defence against cyber-attacks said the threat from cyber attackers continues to evolve.

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Mr Jewell said: "The threat is growing, the threat is evolving. You need to make sure you get the best out of your protection and don’t just rely on the technology.

“It’s also about the people that use it and their training.

“In terms of organised crime, it is still on the increase but there are things companies can do to combat these threats.

“There are holes in people’s security.

“It’s an ever-evolving threat and no-one that stands still and thinks they have something that is protecting them, it is a question of how many days that will last until something circumvents it."

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world...s-take-down-nine-banks-in-30-day-cyber-attack
 
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UPDATE:
OpIcarus: Anonymous hackers shut down Bank of England, call for ‘online revolution’
Published time: 13 May, 2016 15:42

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Hacktivist collective Anonymous has launched cyber-attacks on major financial institutions across the world, including the Bank of England, in order to “start an online revolution.”
Hackers claimed to have taken down the Bank of England’s internal email server as part of an operation dubbed ‘OpIcarus.’

Mail.bankofengland.co.uk was down for part of Friday.

Hackers affiliated with Anonymous also claimed to have shut down several international banks over the past four days, including the National Reserve Bank of Tonga, the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and the central banks of Sweden, Myanmar and Laos.

A hacktivist who goes by the name ‘S1ege’ claimed responsibility for the attacks, stating they want to “start an online revolution” to retaliate against the “elite banking cartels putting the world in a perpetual state of chaos.”

S1ege, who is thought to be a member of the Ghost Squad branch of Anonymous, said the focus of future cyber-attacks will be “NASDAQ, NYSE and Paypal.”

According to IBTimes, none of the institutions subject to attack have disclosed the extent of damage.

While some banks were taken down for only a few minutes, others were left offline for hours.

https://www.rt.com/uk/342958-opicarus-anonymous-bank-england/
 
KingAddies

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Only DDoS?!!? Thought that was skiddy. Then again, Anon usually runs the Denial on the front end because they already have the back end - the in-house security team unwittingly erases the attackers tracks for them by over responding, dropping packets, creating black holes and switching to backup routes.
 
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Why cant these jokers hack the IRS and fucking clear up all the bad tax records people have.... That's the biggest criminal enterprise in the world... Hack them Fool :smh:
 
Dannyblueyes

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I'm not buying it.

If these attacks were real the cost of gold, silver and bitcoin would have skyrocketed, but somehow there's been almost no movement at all
 
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Just a question. To be honest I've never paid much attention outside of "They did what??? Their end game is???......... Oh ok." But do they actually start anything that yields any tangible results???
 
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EXCLUSIVE: Anonymous Strikes the Heart of the Empire — Takes Down U.S. Federal Reserve Bank
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After announcing a global call to arms against the “corrupt global banking cartel,” the hacker collective known as Anonymous, in conjunction with numerous other hacktivist groups, have taken over 20 central banks offline, including striking at the heart of the Western imperialist empire; the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, the Bank of England and the Bank of France.

A press release by Anonymous explained in the intentions behind the operation know as #OpIcarus:
“The banks have been getting away with murder, fraud, conspiracy, war profiteering, money laundering for terrorists and drug cartels, have put millions of people out on the street without food or shelter and have successfully bought all our governments to help keep us silenced. We represent the voice of the voiceless. We are uniting to make a stand. The central banks which were attacked in recent days were attacked to remind people that the biggest threat we face to an open and free society is the banks. The bankers are the problem and #OpIcarus is the solution.”

Operation Icarus was relaunched in conjunction with a video release announcing the beginning of a “30-day campaign against central bank sites across the world.” Since that time, the scope and magnitude of the attacks have increased exponentially, with Anonymous, Ghost Squad Hackers, a number of Sec groups and BannedOffline coordinating attacks — each focusing on separate financial institutions in an effort to maximize the number of targets hit.

Some individuals have expressed reservations about Anonymous attacking the central banking system – thinking that this will in some way impact their individual accounts held in the banks. In an exclusive interview with The Free Thought Project, an Anonymous member explained that this operation is directed solely at the 1%:
“We would just like to make it very clear that all targets of #OpIcarus have been Rothschild and BIS central owned banks. In fact most of the targets so far such as Guernsey, Cyprus, Panama, Jordan, British Virgin Isles, etc are in the top 10 places of tax havens for the elite. No on-line consumer accounts were harmed, no ATM’s were blocked and no personal client data was leaked. This has been a protest against the Central Banks and the 1% — no innocent or poor people were harmed”

The operation began with an initial attack on the Central Bank of Greece and was quickly followed up with a similar DDoS attack on the Central Bank of Cyprus. Last weekend, hackers reportedly targeted the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic, the Dutch Central Bank, the Central Bank of Maldives, and Guernsey Financial Services Commission, according to the official @OpIcarus Twitter account, which has been taken offline — presumably by Twitter. The National Bank of Panama and the Central Bank of Kenya were also reportedly targeted a day later, according to hacking news publication HackRead.

Additionally, reported Ghost Squad Hacker, s1ege also tweeted about taking the Central Bank of Bosnia-Herzegovina offline and provided a screenshot to verify. The Twitter account @BannedOffline also reported the Central Bank of Mexico had succumbed to a DDoS attack by the hacking collective. The online hacktivist groups have continued to conduct a series of high-powered distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, which forced the website of Central Bank of Jordan, Central Bank of South Korea, Bank of Compagnie, Monegasque and the Central Bank of Montenegro offline.

On Saturday, hackers conducted a series of 250 Gbps DDoS attacks on the Bank of France, Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates, Central Bank of Tunisia, Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago and Philippine National Bank. The recent attack, on Monday morning, took down the Central Bank of Iraq.
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In the most high-profile hacks thus far, during OpIcarus, the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, the Bank of England and the Bank of France all fell victim to separate cyber attacks.
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In an exclusive interview with The Free Thought Project, an Anonymous representative explained:
OpIcarus in support of Nuit Debout took the bank of France off line throughout the day as we continue to address the corruption of the banking elite. We are acting on behalf of the countless victims and the voiceless as the banking cartels continue their agenda of buying the governments while selling out the people they are supposed to govern. This Op in no way is meant to harm or disrupt the common person and their day-to-day activities. We are you, we may be your neighbors, those you pass in the street and we are the working class. A Filipino hacker within Anonymous was also able to disrupt services in the Philippines as an act of protest against his nation’s corrupt and brutal government. We will not and cannot sit by idly while the banking systems strip man of his dignity.

Anonymous has released a list of institutions the collective plans to target, which is divided into four sections; websites associated with the U.S. Federal Reserve, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), sites owned by the World Bank, and over 150 sites associated with national banks around the globe.

In two weeks, OpIcarus hackers have hit dozens of financial institutions listed in their online manifesto. Any questions about whether the hacktivists would be able to take out some of the more high-profile institutions seem to have been answered with the recent successful attacks on the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank in Boston, the Bank of France and the Bank of England — the central banks of the U.K. and France.

The attack on the Bank of England was unique from the previous attacks, as it reportedly took down the internal email server.
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While some have questioned the effectiveness of OpIcarus, senior director at Corero Network Security, Stephanie Weagle told Info Security magazine:

“While the impact on the individual targets of the DDoS attack campaign, ‘OpIcarus’ is unclear; obstructing or eliminating the availability of email servers is significant. In an online world any type of service outage is barely tolerated, especially in the banking industry where transactions and communications are often time-sensitive, and account security is of utmost importance.”

Make no mistake that this operation has already been extremely effective — evolving and growing rapidly. In the world of high finance time is money, and every minute that a bank is forced offline it is losing potential revenue, which in turn hurts the bottom line of those that support the imperial war machine. Thus far, all targeted banks have refused to comment on the damage inflicted by the continuous cyber attacks.


Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/an...ine-massive-cyber-attack-20-central-banks-hit
 
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Denial of service attacks are a waste of time. They need to do something that's meaningful. Those attacks only work for a few hours AT MOST and they won't work again. It's a number of ways to stop them in their tracks or to prevent them from even happening.
 

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