Making promise to their threat, hacker group Anonymous made DDoS attacks on cental banks in the region in what it calls Operation Icarus.

Both Indonesia and South Korea were hit with cyberattacks and disteibuted denial of service linked to the notorious hackers. In response to the attacks, Bank Indonesia has blocked 149 region from accessing the central banks website.

Despite no money were lost unlike the Bangladesh Central Bank attack which more sinister in intent, disruption were embarrassing to the governments with clear message on the need to beef up security on the sites. Hackers used DDoS tools in an attempt to force the bank’s website offline. These tools – readily for sale on the dark web which sends torrent of internet traffic towards a server to disrupt its normal operations.

As vile as it may seem, these attacks are sometime used as a distraction to hide malicious entry into a secure server that hosts more sensitive data with the intention to of stealing these information.

Additionally, the central bank of South Korea also noted at least one DDoS attack on its website in May but officials maintained that “no harm was done”.

The timeline of the attacks coincides with the 30-day campaign launched by Anonymous, coined ‘Operation Icarus’ which, during the month of May hit nearly 70 banking institutions across the globe.