Anonymous' OpIcarus campaign targeting the banking sector worldwide appears to be gaining momentum after 8 more financial institutions were hit with DDoS attacks in recent days!
The first DDoS attacks were carried out on the Central Bank of Greece, as first revealed by SecNews, and were followed a few days later by similar attacks against the Central Bank of Cyprus.
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Shortly afterwards, the number of attacks skyrocketed and now they are coming from all directions and from many parts of Anonymous such as the Ghost Squad Hackers.
The official Twitter account of the campaign @Op_Icarus reported this weekend DDoS attacks on the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic (the only site still down), the Guernsey Financial Services Commission, the Central Bank of the Netherlands, and the Central Bank of the Maldives.
A day later, HackRead also reported attacks on the Central Bank of Kenya and the National Bank of Panama.
Also, Ghost Squad Hackers member s1ege tweeted about an attack on the Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Anonymous member BannedOffline wrote about similar attacks on the Central Bank of Mexico.
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In less than a week, Anonymous hackers managed to attack 10 of the 160 banks they had declared in the online manifesto, including the US Federal Reserve Bank, the World Bank, the IMF, the New York Stock Exchange and the Bank of England.
#OpIcarus #TangoDown Get fucked Guernsey Financial Services Commission . pic.twitter.com/hsHrzPzW4W
— OpIcarus (@Op_Icarus) May 6, 2016
https://t.co/iO3VxH80bb “Bank Of Bosnia” #OpIcarus #GhostSquadHackers #Offline pic.twitter.com/oEX5qWffK5
— s1ege (@_s1ege) May 8, 2016
Central Bank Of Mexico Nulled By #BinarySec
#Anonymous #OpIcarus #OpShutDownTheBanks #OpShutDownTheGov pic.twitter.com/LkM3bla8lE— Offline (@BannedOffline) May 6, 2016
