Hackers Target The New York Stock Exchange

The group of hacktivists calling themselves “Anonymous” is said to be preparing for a massive cyber attack on New York Stock Exchange – the heart of the global financial markets. According to a press release, the hacktivists have launched  “Operation Icarus” with the goal to create financial chaos and public unrest.

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“It is time to show the world the true power and the true face of the faceless, the nameless and the ghosts of society.”

Anonymous

It’s only six weeks since the management at Nasdaq OMX were so kind to inform their clients and other market participants that hackers had broken into their trading systems – a year earlier. Those guys didn’t leave much of a trace and it’s still unclear what they’ve actually have been doing to the Nasdaq systems. At least the Anonymous has the decency to give investors a warning in advance.

To me it seems like the Anonymous have been struggling a bit lately to get the attention they want.

Last Monday the hacktivists launched another operation – “Operation Leaks”.

In a series of messages on Twitter last Sunday evening they promised to release emails that supposedly should document “fraud and corruption” at Bank of America (BAC).

The release comes three and a half months after Wikileaks founder Julian Assange scared the financial industry by  promising to “take down a bank or two” by releasing “either tens or hundreds of thousands of documents.”

Assange likened the documents to the ones that prosecutors used in bringing top executives of failed energy trader Enron to justice.

However, the released emails do not live up to the high expectations, set by Mr. Assange and the Anonymous hackers, and have not got much attention in any media so far.

The emails released on Monday doesn’t really prove anything, eighter, just that someone at BoA tried to alter some numbers in a document so it didn’t match a certain series of loans.

(Download one archive here: http://uiu.me/U.zip)

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So, to compete with Moammar Gaddafi and the Japanese nuclear reactors, the Anonymous have now issued another statement in where they inform of the launching of “Operation Icarus,” aimed at the New York Stock Exchange.

“This is the operation to end all others,” the hacktivists writes.

Here’s the full press release:

Operation Icarus

Attention Brothers: The opportunity to create financial chaos and public unrest and from that, there will be a previously unachieved amount of lulz to be had. Charge your lasers and aim them at the New York Stock Exchange. (NYSE.com)

It has been said that humanity is not an end in itself but rather a means to an end. We have shown the world our strength to deny ignorance, overcome adversity, fight oppression and even the power to throw a wrench in the system that perpetuates it.

We are enslaved within a matrix of institutions with the illusion that each stands alone, each fighting for power, for profits, for the scraps on the table that represent humanities dwindling resources.

In reality however, these institutions; the arms industries, banking and other financial institutions, government intelligence agencies and countless others have formed what was once a clandestine coalition whose corruption and avarice have become increasingly transparent due to wikileaks and the efforts of anonymous.

This coalition seeks the preservation and the perpetuation of the powers that be and this octopus 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.

The puppets of the powers that be include the president of the united states and his cabinet, and through them they are able to repress the freedom of information and with it the free and open exchange of ideas which are fundamental to the existence and operations of anonymous and the ability to see beyond the veil of secrecy from which the powers that be stand behind.

But where does the power behind the throne lie? Within the global financial system, centered within the New York stock exchange.

They feel secure in their ivory tower built on the broken backs of the laborers of the world for what are their subjects but human…all too human.

In humanity lies the restraints of pity and mercy, driven by fear. But We are not merely human. Anonymous is something much more for we possess neither fear nor mercy.

It is time to show the world the true power and the true face of the faceless, the nameless and the ghosts of society.

Like Icarus, the powers that be have flown too close to the sun and the time has come to set the wings of their empire ablaze and watch the system their power relies on come to a grinding halt and come crashing down around them. We must strike at the heart of their empire by once again throw a wrench into the machine, but this time we face a much bigger target; the global financial system.

This time our target is the New York Stock Exchange. (NYSE.com)

This is a call to arms my brothers who for too long have stood for nothing but have criticized everything. Stand now, behind the banner of free men against the tyrannical matrix of institutions that oppose us. Ready your weapons and aim them at the New York Stock Exchange.

This is the operation to end all others. Innocent people may stand to lose something from this but the powers that be stand to lose much more. Bring the rain brothers.

We are Anonymous

We are Legion

We do not forgive

We do not forget

Expect Us.

 

Yeah..Well, I’m  not really sure what to expect…

(Source: The Hackers News)

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