HSBC hacked by Anonymous. RBS, Lloyds TSB & Barclays next targets

Public may not be aware that HSBC, Lloyds TSB and Barclays Banks fund the War Industry. “Banks are the sole cause of our current worldwide economic problems. They deserve to get hit. RBS, Lloyds TSB and Barclays are next,” FawkesSecurity (one of Anonymous hacker groups) said.

Thomas Jefferson's statement in a letter to John Taylor in 1816: “And I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.”

The multinational bank HSBC has blamed a denial of service attack for the downtime of many of its websites worldwide on Thursday night and the Anonymous group has been quick to take credit. "FawkesSecurity", who claim responsibility for a DDOS cyber attack on HSBC Bank, says that they have also managed to get 20,000 debit card details. On asking, is there any proof of this claim, they replied, “We're debating whether to release them or not, HSBC knows debit details were intercepted, they probably won't admit it though.”

A group that calls itself Izz ad-Din Al Qassam, which has claimed responsibility for recent cyberattacks on at least nine other banks, also took responsibility for the assault on HSBC.

Who ever the real hitman behind this, but according to hacker's warnings - RBS, Lloyds TSB and Barclays Banks are next targets. In a YouTube video the group said it was holding back on its reason for the attack.

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Anonymous destroys CIA.GOV

Following Friday’s crippling of the CIA’s official government website, an alleged member of Anonymous has uploaded a video explaining how the collective crushed the agency’s online presence — and why the CIA should have been ready.

A distributed denial of service, or DDoS attack, brought CIA.gov down for hours late last week, in one of the longest-lasting assaults credited to the online hacktivist group Anonymous — and also an attack on perhaps the collective’s largest target yet. With a DDoS assault, a website’s server is flooded with an onslaught of requests, essentially overloading its capacity and rendering it nonoperational. In a video uploaded to YouTube over the weekend, a member claiming allegiance to the loose-knit hacktivist group explains that the assault on the CIA’s servers is now out of their control and even apologizes for the attack, but adds that the move has generated attention towards something much more serious than just the cyber-security status of the agency.


According to the video uploaded on Saturday by the user MrAnonVids, the motive for the maneuver was not necessarily an anti-government one as with previously assaults in the episodic “FuckFBIFriday” campaign that offered similar results in the weeks before. In the case of the latest domestic attack, the alleged member reveals that the servers that struck out the CIA’s website with a DDoS attack were riddled with child pornography. Explaining what the CIA should do about it, the operative declares, “Your only choice is to act, and have them taken offline, which should have already happened.”

Self-proclaimed members of Anonymous have previously taken credit for dismantling the servers used by forums frequented by traders of child pornography. While the group has been able to cripple those sites in the past, it seems as if they are daring the CIA to do their work for them with last week’s attack. According to the video, six servers loaded with child pornography flooded CIA.gov, and while the intended purpose of the DDoS attack was not to take down the agency’s cite, the operative announces that “in doing so we have created a way more significant amount of attention to a situation that goes unnoticed far too often.”

Elsewhere in the YouTube statement, the person taking credit for the video says that the assault on the CIA was not wholly endorsed by the entire Anonymous collective and acknowledged that members of the group “have the capacity for the same errors of judgment and mistakes that everyone does.”

“Regardless of the reason it’s used, we are united under common goals, for the common good.”

(source)