- May 7, 2016
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It’s been over a week since Anonymous and Ghost Squad began conducting cyber attacks onbanking websites worldwide. It’s the weekend now but the hacktivists aren’t taking a break; while you were sleeping they conducted distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks on the websites of four International banks including the central bank of Kenya, National Bank of Panama, Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Maldives Monetary Authority.
The attack was executed by Ghost Squad Saturday morning forcing the sites to go offline. Though most of the sites are back online, the Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina is still offline since yesterday. In an exclusive conversation with attackers HackRead was told that:
“The National Bank of Panama was a special target considering the importance of Panama Leaks — We want to make sure the corrupt elite named in the papers would be punished one day.”
Read full story:OpIcarus Finds More Targets as Banks in Panama, Bosnia and Kenya Go Offline
The attack was executed by Ghost Squad Saturday morning forcing the sites to go offline. Though most of the sites are back online, the Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina is still offline since yesterday. In an exclusive conversation with attackers HackRead was told that:
“The National Bank of Panama was a special target considering the importance of Panama Leaks — We want to make sure the corrupt elite named in the papers would be punished one day.”
Read full story:OpIcarus Finds More Targets as Banks in Panama, Bosnia and Kenya Go Offline
