Anonymous Acts on Cyber War Threat
Hacktivist group, Anonymous, has already made true on its declaration of cyber war on terrorist group ISIS. In the space of 48 hours, over 5 000 Twitter accounts linked to ISIS have been taken down.
This follows a video, in response to Friday night's terror attacks in Paris, featuring one of the masked hacktivists saying: "Anonymous from all over the world will hunt you down. You should know that we will find you and we will not let you go. We will launch the biggest operation ever against you. Expect massive cyber attacks. War is declared. Get prepared."
A Twitter account, @opparisofficial, was started by Anonymous, for people to follow the progress of the attacks. The account already has over 28 000 followers.
The account tweeted: "More than 3 824 Twitter accounts pro #ISIS are now #down!"
Also, it was tweeted the number of Twitter accounts taken down had risen to 5 500.
The account did say no action would be taken until the flagged Twitter accounts were verified. "Accounts will then be passed on for surveillance."
A separate Twitter account, linked to Anonymous, announced: "#Anonymous has now seized hundreds of underground #ISIS recruitment sites and forums. We've also leaked info on registered accounts. #OpParis."
"Our capability to take down ISIS is a direct result of our collective's sophisticated hackers, data miners, and spies that we have all around the world. We have people very, very close to ISIS on the ground, which makes gathering intel about ISIS and related activities very easy for us," an Anonymous spokesman told RT.
Another Anonymous account, @TheAnonMovement, tweeted: "We will not stop until there is a total blackout for #ISIS online."
ISIS has allegedly used the messaging service, Telegram (which allows for end-to-end encrypted communication), to communicate instructions on how to avoid hacks by Anonymous.
"The #Anonymous hackers threatened in new video release that they will carry out a major hack operation on the Islamic state (idiots)," the statement read in part – according to Business Insider.
The instructions included telling members not to open links from unknown sources, constantly change IP addresses, and not to talk to strangers on various messaging services.
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