Hacking Group ‘Anonymous’ Declares War On ISIS

Global hacking collective Anonymous on Monday declared a “cyber-war” on Daesh, following deadly terrorist attacks in France.

“Yesterday, Friday November 13th 2015, our country, France was attacked in Paris at around 10 pm by multiple terrorists attempts claimed by you, ISIS (Islamic State)”.

“We are going to launch the most important operation ever carried out against you”, a robed figure warns in one video, as news footage of the attacks plays in the background.

Anonymous, a loosely affiliated group of Internet users who hack and spread leaked information, said in a series of tweets and a YouTube video that it wants to steal information from that Web traffic and force ISIS into Internet obscurity.

The member, whose voice perceive him to be male, said, “Expect massive cyber attacks”. War is declared. Prepare yourselves. “The French people are stronger than you and will come out of this atrocity even stronger”, Anonymous said in a two-minute video.

The new mission, dubbed #OpParis on Twitter, dovetails with #OpISIS, which launched after the January attacks on Charlie Hebdo.

“We report that more than 5500 Twitter account of #ISIS are now #down!”

The group says it has identified more than 39,000 suspected ISIS profiles and reported them to Twitter.

Anonymous has been known to misfire with its approach, misidentifying people in its #OpKKK last month with no connection to the hate group, and use of illegal tactics such as distributed denial-of-service attacks.

They had announced that they were no friends of the ISIS and the real battle began in June a year ago when one of their accounts was taken over by a sympathizer of the ISIS. However, he did acknowledge that their threats “can certainly be credible in that we can certainly expect that a few Anonymous members made a decision to take a few action”. Apparently, the activist hackers disabled thousands of social media accounts linked to the Islamic State as a result and analysts said Anonymous may do the same again. Those operating under their banner has focused on disrupting the terrorist group’s recruitment efforts by targeting their social media and communication networks.

After the killing of 129 people in Paris on Friday, the organisation waged cyberwar on ISIS with a cautionary video posted online.