Anonymous Teams with GhostSquad to Attack Banks Anthony Spadafora - Beta News
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Anonymous Targets Central Banks: Laurie Segall breaks down the group's campaign, dubbed "Operation Icarus." (CNNMoney)

Anonymous has joined forces with GhostSquad to launch successful cyberattacks on eight international banks that were forced to shut down their websites.

The hacktivist collective alongside the hacker group GhostSquad have launched a new operation called Op Icarus which aims to punish corrupt banks and individuals in the financial sector.

So far the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic, the Guernsey Financial Services Commission, the Central Bank of Maldives and the Dutch Central Bank were all offline for a brief period on May 6 after being hit with distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.

A day later, the National Bank of Panama and the Central Bank of Kenya were hit with cyberattacks, followed by the Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Central Bank of Mexico were taken offline as a result of DDoS attacks.

All eight of the international banks that have been targeted by Op Icarus have managed to bring their systems back online. Anonymous did send a warning to the banking community in the form of a video that was posted on May 4 which said:

"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".

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