Anonymous target Bank of Greece

The online hacktivist Anonymous relaunched operation OpIcarus targeting banking sector in Europe and the United States.

The Bank of Greece had their website under a series of distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS) forcing the servers to remain offline for more than 6 hours.

Operation OpIcarus was launched in January 2016 and started again in March 2016. Anonymous believe banks and financial giants are involved in corruption and to register their protest they had to take the war to a next level, as HackRead reports.

One of the hacktivists behind the Greek bank DDoS attack told HackRead that:

“The greek central bank has been offline all day. we would like all banks out there to know that unless they hold themselves accountable for their crimes against humanity that we will strike a new bank every single day and punish them #OpIcarus.”

Earlier in March 2016, Anonymous declared it would target the global financial system and relaunch #OpIcarus because: “Like Icarus, the powers that be have flown to close to the sun and the time has come to set the wings of their empire ablaze.”

In a statement released on May 2, 2016 Anonymous said:

“How fitting that Icarus found his way back to Greece. Greetings world and greetings Global Banking Cartel, we are Anonymous… We have continuously taken down the website of the Bank of Greece. This marks the start of a 30 days campaign, against central banking sites around the Globe.”