“Anonymous” takes aim at central banks and major players in the global financial services market.
A collective of hackers known as “Anonymous,” has declared a 30-day war on “all central banks” across the globe, the Nasdaq stock market, the Bank for International Settlements, the International Monetary Fund, the London Stock Exchange, and major outlets for consumer-oriented financial services.
The hackers have claimed their first victim, the Central Bank of Greece, whose website suffered a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on Tuesday, May 3, according to major media reports. According to press reports, the attack was short lived.
“The attack lasted for a few minutes and was successfully tackled by the bank’s security systems,” a Bank of Greece official told the Reuters news service.
When checked by FTF News on Wednesday, May 4, 2016, the Bank of Greece website had this message: “This is Google’s cache of http://www.bankofgreece.gr/Pages/en. It is a snapshot of the page as it appeared on Apr 30, 2016 14:35:04 GMT. The current page could have changed in the meantime.”
In a YouTube message, complete with a scary soundtrack, an Anonymous spokesperson in a mask and robe delivered the threat on May 3, 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xE6bAweVMJY
The message before the attacks on the Bank of Greece argued that the driver for the cyber-attacks was part of an effort to end human suffering, world wars, greed among bankers and an “evil and corrupt Elite” that rules the world.
“We will not let the banks win, we will be attacking the banks with one of the most massive attacks ever seen in the history of Anonymous,” according to the YouTube presentation. “We will be giving many tools to each and every Anon all over the world, and we will be holding down PayPal, MasterCard, VISA, NASDAQ, Bank for International Settlements [BIS], all central banks, IMF, London Stock Exchange, and every major banking system will be targeted by Anonymous.”
A Nasdaq spokesperson declines comment.
“Bankers and investors beware, your wealth will soon be affected, your greed will come to an end, and those of you who cause the suffering of others for your greedy desires, will soon see what it is like to suffer,” according to Anonymous.
The Anonymous hackers will take on “high and pathetic banking fees, high interest rates on home loans, foreclosures, legally stealing homes of people who have paid hundreds of thousands in payments, support from governments, bailouts.”
The latest threat follows in another YouTube message, dated March 31, 2016, that outlined a clandestine coalition of “the arms industries, banking and other financial institutions, government intelligence agencies and countless others.”
The coalitions “operates through the tentacles of the IMF, the Federal Reserve, and the World Bank, masterminded by think-tanks such as the Bilderberg group, and the Council on Foreign Relations,” according to Anonymous. “But where does the power behind the throne lie? Within the global financial system, centered within the New York Stock Exchange, and Bank of England.”
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