After announcing a global call to arms against the "corrupt global banking cartel," the hacker collective, known as Anonymous, in conjunction with Ghost Squad Hackers, have taken over 30 central banks offline, including striking many targets at the heart of the Western imperialist empire.
An Anonymous press release explained the intention behind the operation:
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 โ each focusing on separate financial institutions in an effort to maximize the number of targets hit.
In a previous interview with the Free Thought Project, an Anonymous representative clarified that the operation is in no way intended to impact individuals' accounts held within the banks, explaining that OpIcarus is directed solely at the 1% perpetuating injustice:
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. The hackers then 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 โ 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.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% โ no innocent or poor people were harmed.
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.
Last 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. That was followed up by an attack on the Central Bank of Iraq.
The initial attacks were reported in global corporate media, such as Reuters, with subsequent strikes being reported by independent outlets such as the IBTimes and HackRead. The most recent press release from Anonymous summarized some of the attacks of the past week, as global media has curiously stopped reporting on the attacks altogether.
After announcing OpIcarus at the beginning of May, Anonymous 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.Greetings citizens of the world, we are OpIcarus a collective of citizens from around the globe working on exposing the 1% through the global banking systems. The elite are responsible for the corruption currently taking place in all governments, media, drug cartels, sex trafficking and money laundering. This last week we have had success in taking down the banking systems of the Bank of International Settlements, the World Bank, the Vatican, Morocco, Macedonia as well as the Central Bank of Venezuela. We stand with the people of Venezuela as they protest their corrupt government and all should expect our support through operations during these uprisings wherever they may arise. We are the people, We stand with the people, We support the people.
In just a few 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 World Bank, the U.S. Federal Reserve Banks, the Bank of France and the Bank of Englandโ the central banks of the U.K. and France - and the Vatican.
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The attack on the Bank of England was unique from the previous attacks, as it reportedly took down the internal email server.
While some have questioned the effectiveness of OpIcarus, senior director at Corero Network Security, Stephanie Weagle, told Info Security magazine:
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.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 โ evolving and growing rapidly. The fact that global corporate media is refusing to report on these numerous high-profile attacks is indicative of the fear the 1% have of OpIcarus garnering massive public support. The attempt to conceal the scope and breadth of this operation from public purview reveals the visceral fear the elite harbor toward those they prey upon. It seems the only thing the ruling class can do now is attempt to conceal and suppress the information about what's transpiring in hopes of keeping the populace ignorant.
Reader Comments
Quote from the article, "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% โ no innocent or poor people were harmed."
Notice how they refer to it as a protest. If anything, this blows apart the argument to try to switch us to cyber currency instead of just cash. I agree with L. Wood that it looks more like a feedback mechanism.
Probably the PTB themselves are behind it. This way, they have a great argument for a) total surveillance & control of the internet, and b) even tighter control of the money systems. Doesn't help "the little people" at all.
When a person's brain directs them to to take 3 donuts when the tray comes around, their fat body may groan in anticipation, but that is about it. But when they start getting diabetes, their habits change cause it is really uncomfortable for them, and the brain begins to rule their appetite. Pain is an essential feedback mechanism to protect us and control our behavior.
Our society is like a person, and some are taking too many donuts, but do not get any uncomfortable feedback, so continue getting obese, as corporations. We need a feedback system that cause severe pain to those who control us, if they are not acting for the good welfare of the society. The people need a way to give them real pain.
I think what Anonymous is doing is creating that essential feedback mechanism. If the controllers are greedy, abusing the public, then the public needs a way to hurt the controllers. Cutting off their income seems pretty effective. Go Anonymous.
is so pointless. All they ever do is take down web sites. That is not even remotely damaging to these banks. It only hurts the people trying to log in and see how much money they don't have for dinner that night. Anonymous needs to take their soros money and shove it up their collective anonymous ass' and piss off. Nobody needs what they are doing.
Now if they were to say completely wipe all servers of data so that the world had no choice but to reset, then we could talk. As for now it is nothing but script kiddies blowing up their egos.
Dinner has already been ruined or have you not noticed yet from affluence. Protesting is lol and gets nothing done that isn't already on "their" agenda, that should be obvious as all get out. I understand though, all this (looks around at modern world) is hard to let go of. (steps over homeless vet) -_-
Firstly, people seem to comment without even having read the article and thus criticise Anonymous for things that didn't happen.
Secondly, there seems to be a lot of bitching without offering a better alternative. (Or offering a clearly worse one, like wiping data. WTF?)
And thirdly, a lot of people seem to have adapted this view that we are completely powerless and anything that looks good must be some evil plot of the PTB. Many people seem to believe that the elite is all-powerful and cannot be fought by any means. If you believe that, please spare us your "everything is pointless" lectures.
The article clearly explained why and how this action is hurting the banks and how it's designed to not hurt the poor.
Sure, it may not be the best thing in the world to do and may not achieve too much, but what's wrong with people just doing what little they can?
And if you think Anonymous is pointless, what do you suggest? Bitching in comments under online articles like you're doing? Because that's helping?
@Mandatory Intellectomy:
Here is what I do, to fight the bastards:
I pour sand into their veins. I do this every day, in each moment with my thoughts and prayers, as a matter of course. I also assert myself through my actions, though they may seem small, almost not at all.
Slowly, slowly, though, their arteries clog and their brick hearts and bullet heads wither, shatter, crumble and decay. This despite all their evil pride and glory.
I am time eternal and I am justice.
The megalomaniac ego-driven criminal mind is no match for me. Never was and never will be.
It (their evil) is all in vain, a mere moment in a false world of false alarm.
They are clueless and because they remain clueless, eventually they will be lifeless, too. Everything they built and desired out of lust and greed, gone and gone forever. This will be a very, very difficult time for them.
Forever is very long.......
....very long.
ned, out