Anonymous hackers attacked the Central Bank of Greece and threatened the regulators of all countries

The Central Bank of Greece was the victim of the attack of hackers from the Anonymous group, which led to a failure in the work of the regulator website. This is reported by Reuters with reference to the statement of the representative of the Greek Central Bank, who wished to remain unnamed.

According to him, the attack occurred on Tuesday, May 3. It lasted for several minutes and "was successfully blocked with the help of bank security systems." “The only thing that suffered as a result of this attack is our website,” the official said.

One of the hactivists told the Hackread.com website that as a result of the attack, the Greek Central Bank website did not work "throughout the day." "We want all banks to know that until they begin to consider themselves responsible for their crimes against humanity, we will continue to strike at new banks every day," he said.

Earlier, in March, the hactivists also published a video in which they explained the reasons for their attacks on banks and brought a list of organizations that they intend to attack. Among them were the financial institutions of Brazil, Bangladesh, China, the USA, Great Britain, Pakistan, Iran and other countries.

On May 2, hackers published a new video in which they announced a 30-day campaign directed against regulators of all countries. “Olympus will fall. A few days ago we announced the resumption of Ikar operation. Today we turned off the Bank of Greece Bank ... This marks the beginning of a 30 -day campaign directed against the sites of the Central Banks around the world,” the video published on the YouTube video hosting.

The operation of hackers called Icarus was launched in January 2016, recalls News in Greece . In March, hackers announced the beginning of the second stage of the operation.

Hackers stole more than 500 million rubles from the Russian International Bank account in the Central Bank

It should be noted that in January 2016, the Russian International Bank (RMB) was subjected to a hacker attack. Unknown attackers hacked his correspondent account in the Central Bank of Russia (Central Bank of the Russian Federation) and stole 508.67 million rubles. This was reported in the annual report of a credit institution for 2015, published on the official website of the RMB.

According to the bank, the attack occurred on January 21. With the help of the Central Bank and Controlians of the RMB, 336 million rubles of stolen funds were returned. Work on the return of the remaining amount continues.

On March 25, on the fact of an unauthorized write -off of funds from the Corgot, a criminal case was instituted under Art. 159 of the Criminal Code ("Fraud"). After the hacker attack, the RMB changed internal documents, including the ONIVD plan (ensuring continuity and restoration of activity). The bank also strengthened information security and acquired specialized software to identify anomalous network activity, the report said.

The RMB became the first Russian bank to publicly report that hackers were able to abduct the funds from his account in the Central Bank. In 2015, RMB increased net profit in IFRS by 46.8% to 551.75 million rubles. According to the results of the first quarter of 2016, the Russian International Bank takes 128th place in terms of assets in the Interfax-100 Ranking.