Anonymous hacker publishes details of ‘ISIS recruiters’

The masked person added that “we will launch the biggest operation ever against you”.

The report further stated that security experts doubt Anonymous’ campaigns, but according to the man on the phone, the group will verify any data they’ve gathered, ensure that they are legitimate and will not share them unless they’ve done a thorough investigation.

Anonymous, a loosely organized group of hackers, launched the #OpParis campaign on November 16.

Reacting to the video on Monday, Islamic State dismissed Anonymous as “idiots” and offered to guide supporters around the world on how to defend themselves against cyber-attacks.

“If you look at the numbers of people that have left the U.S.to go fight with ISIS, we’re in the thousands there”. Going down the list in one’s browser makes it plain that many, if not all, of these accounts have now been suspended by Twitter.

Foreign Policy magazine notes that the organisation has flagged over 100,000 Twitter accounts and brought down close to 150 websites since their inception. The memo also provided instructions on how to avoid hackers, telling supporters to change their IP addresses frequently and to avoid speaking with strangers over messaging apps and social media.

A few groups affiliated with and supportive of IS have reportedly claimed that they will attack those involved with Anonymous, and so security among both sides is expected to be high. “They’ve been very instrumental in helping authorities identify communications about offline activities like recruitments, in a few instances actual attack plots, and they’ve been especially useful in terms of things that are more difficult-to-monitor communications platforms like Telegram messenger”. Get prepared. Anonymous from all over the world will hunt you down. In a recent video, the Anonymous group mentioned “War is declared”.

Anonymous, says Laurelli, is also at risk of political capture.

The group has distanced itself from Anonymous because the hacktivist group “has no centralized leadership and everybody can kind of do what they want”, Digital Shadow said.

This is not the first time Anonymous and IS have gone to war either.

IS has predictably joined the salvo of criticism against the diffuse hacktivist network.

The Islamic Cyber Army attempted to make a joke: “What they gonna hack…all they can do is hacking twitter accounts, emails, etc…”

Anonymous’ cyber war on ISIS comes in the wake of the coordinated Paris attacks last month.