Hacktivists Say They Will Massively Attack Western Financial System

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The hacktivist groups KillNet, Anonymous Sudan, and REvil said they would take down the entire European banking system within the next 48 hours. They want the money and weapons to Ukraine to stop. These hacktivists are all said to be pro-Russia.

They’re particularly after SWIFT, our now-weaponized world monetary system.

I didn’t post this because I thought it was simply a scare tactic, but then the government announced significant hacks in several US government agencies.

Apparently, the hackers, believed to be Russian, hacked into the most critical infrastructure.

It looks like the EU is taking it seriously.

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Canadian Friend
2 years ago

Democrats and the MSM in 2016 ; “Russia is colluding with Trump to rig 2016 election!” = turned out to be false Democrats and MSM in 2020 ; ” Russia fabricated the Hunter laptop story !” = turned out to be 100% false. Democrats and MSM ; ” Russia blew up ( their own ) pipeline ! ” = False… Read more »

Greg
2 years ago

Rather curious that McAfee was working on intrusion prevention hardware before he was arrested. If such a system was developed it means attacks could never reach the computer system. Considering governments, especially the US, use hacking tools against other countries and individuals, as Wikileaks proved to everyone. A McAfee system would prevent the West from using such hacking tools. No… Read more »

Canadian Friend
2 years ago

I am sorry if at times I sound arrogant or pretentious, but aproximately 30 years ago when I realized that one day everyone and everything would be on computers, and that we would rely on computer for everything imaginable from banking, to controling electricity in the nation, to military weapons, I said ; ” computers will be our downfall” (… Read more »

Peter Prange
2 years ago

There are many ways to fight a war. Compare the costs and the effect. Bomb a city and maybe know it out. Attack the computers for little cost, destroy a country’s infrastructure, financial system and watch the country collapse. Bomb and cause suffering for a small %, computer attack and 25-50% could die during a very cold winter, and starve… Read more »