CyberJihad vs Anonymous
The Islamic State militant group (ISIS) released a statement on Monday responding to Anonymous’s declaration of “total war,” calling thehacker group “idiots” andoffering guidance to pro-ISIS supporters to protect against cyber attacks.Anonymous threatened thatit would launch its “biggest operation ever” against ISIS in response to the wave of shooting and suicide bomb attacks in Paris that left at least129 people dead.The “Islamic Cyber Army” posted aresponse to Anonymous’s video releaseon its purported official channel on the privacy app Telegram, giving a series of tips to ISIS supporters. The postwas shared by Anonymous-affiliated accounts on social media, such as thegroup’s Venezuelan arm. Jihadi monitoring network SITE Intelligence alsoconfirmedthe post.“The Anonymous hackers threatened in new video release that they will carryout a major hack operation on the Islamic State (idiots),” ISIS’s post read. “What they gonna hack...all they can do is hacking twitter accounts, emails etc…”The militant group then listed a series of steps that its supporters should follow online, including notopening suspicious links, changing their locations using workaround technology on their phonesand computers, avoiding contact with unknown people on their phone andcomputers and to renaming their email addresses.The post says: “Do not talk to to people u don’t know on telegram and block them if u have to cause there are many glitches in telegram and they can hack you by it. Don’t talk to people on twitter DM cause they canhack u too.“Do not make your emailsame as your username on twitter this mistake cost many Ansar (helpers)their accounts and the kuffar published their IP so be careful.”Anonymous’s two-minute videothreatening ISIS has amassed more than five millions views since it launched on Saturday."War is declared. Get prepared," a masked figurewarned the group in the video."The French people are stronger than you and willcome out of this atrocity even stronger,” the figure added. “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.”The hacker said that the infamous group will use its cyber skills to "unite humanity" and said that terrorists should "expect massive cyber attacks."Anonymous has targeted ISIS for a number of months following the attacks on the Paris offices of satirical magazineCharlie Hebdoand its hack of U.S. CENTCOM's Twitter account. The group has uncovered the Twitter accounts of ISIS membersand hacked a number of the group's sites.The hacktivist group has dismantled at least 149 ofISIS’s affiliated websites, flagged approximately 101,000 Twitter accounts and nearly 6,000 propaganda videos,U.S. magazineForeign Policyestimates.This story has been updated to clarify that thetargeting of ISIS by Anonymous followed ISIS's attacks on CharlieHebdo and U.S. CENTCOM's Twitter account.
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