Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
At 11:32 yesterday morning the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) computers went down, causing a four-hour suspension of transactions. In a four-hour period the NYSE averages about $400 million in trades – a substantial daily loss. The NYSE and Homeland Security both quickly announced that the problem was not due to a cyber attack. At virtually the same time that the NYSE went down, the Wall Street Journal’s public website went down. In spite if assurances to the contrary from Homeland Security, I felt that these two events were not coincidences and that a cyber attack, in all likelihood, did occur. Traces of Attack A couple of hours spent surfing the Dark Web confirmed my suspicions. The Dark Web was rife with communications among a small group of people (allegedly members of Anonymous) congratulating themselves on a job well done on Wall Street. Returning to the Surface Web I even found a tweet from AnonNews – the Anonymous Public Relations group – tweeted 12 hours before the NYSE computers went down, saying: “Wonder if tomorrow is going to be bad for Wall Street…. we can only hope.” I predict that it will only be a matter of hours before Anonymous (if […]
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