The Anonymous hacking collective has reportedly taken down over 5,500 Twitter accounts purported to belong to Islamic State members following their declaration of “total war” on the terrorist group after the Paris attacks.
The announcement comes less than 24 hours after hacktivist group warned of a coordinated and targeted attack against the Islamic State in the wake of the deadly wave of terror attacks across Paris.
We report that more than 5500 Twitter account of #ISIS are now #down! #OpParis #Anonymous #ExpectUs
— #OpParis (@opparisofficial) November 17, 2015
Anonymous spokesman Alex Poucher told RT:
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.
Poucher went on to say that the groups hacking acumen “might be better than any world government’s tools to combat ISIS online,” adding that although ISIS has its own hacking core, the terrorist group “does not have hackers like we have hackers.”
They picked a fight with Anonymous when they attacked Paris, and now they should expect us,” he said, adding that the collective “will not sit by and watch these terror attacks unfold around the world.
Anonymous has targeted ISIS in the past, dismantling 149 Islamic State websites so far this year, according to Foreign Policy. The hacktivist group began operations against the Islamic State following their brutal attack on Charlie Hebdo in January.
On Monday, Anonymous released a video announcing that the group would “launch the biggest operation ever” against Islamic State.
The hacking collective vowed to “unite humanity,” warning the terrorist group to “expect massive cyber-attacks.”
“Anonymous from all over the world will hunt you down,” the masked Anon spokesman in the video said. “You should know that we will find you and we will not let you go.”
ISIS responded to Anonymous’ video on Monday, calling the hacktivist group “idiots” and offering technical guidance to ISIS supporters in an effort to protect against Anonymous cyber-attacks.
In spite of the ISIS insults aimed at Anonymous, judging by the initial results, it seems the Islamic State is impotent to stop the hacktivist group from decimating the terror group’s social media outreach and recruitment efforts.
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I interpret this as more evidence that “Anonymous” is just another NWO/JWO creation.
This situation with anonymous is beginning to sound scripted.
@Blaq Tongue Hate a me too, but yes, agree with you. Seems to be thesis, antithesis, synthesis coming into play.
This kind of goes along with a theory of mine regarding Judaism, Islam, Christianity all being part of a dialectic. People are still controlled even if offered three choices, the thesis, the antithesis, the synthesis. It seems Judaism to me is the thesis, Islam would be the antithesis, Christianity the synthesis. I may be a little ‘off base’ yet do not think by much if at all.
Governments were also structured and formed according to this kind of template. Monarchy, Democracy, Republic and Socialist, Communist, Democratic are all on display. Yes, there is a difference between Socialist and Communist, know it may seem there is not.
To me it seems all keen to point out a trinity. You have positive, negative and neutral current even. Have a friend constantly chide me that no ‘neutral’ current exists. His remark is you have on or off and that’s it. So, his logic is positive and negative are all there is. I point out the energy contained in potential, he is left trying to toss some hair brained ‘know it all’ bull story to explain potential away.
Gnosticism knows, from nothing comes something and from something back to nothing. It is what lies between that is potential. Random chance creates and destroys equally and without prejudice. This lies in everything and nothing.
Why not teach that as everyone’s basics? Why continually have to assert this dialectic and assert control? Once you have control, so the logic goes, you have ‘all the marbles’. Okay, what next? What is the end purpose? Simply having all the marbles means what? You win?
So? Maybe not all of us are playing your game of marbles. I for example might be playing a game of giggles. I make up stuff to make myself giggle. For example I think mushrooms need to talk about the false math used to get the square root of pies. 🙂 “Mushrooms don’t talk”, I hear you beginning to suggest. Guess what? My game, my rules and if mushrooms want to talk they will. 🙂 Ha!
Anonymous is cointelpro. Or has become adopted by such interests. That is the only thing which explains how it became such an overnight media darling.
Ben, where do you fit into your scenario?
Whaaaaa??? Anonymous will take out ISIS while the muslim jihadist-In-Chief does nothing?
And while the NSA is more worried about spying on Americans than keeping tabs on terrorists.
You have nothing whatsoever, other than your blind ideological bias, to support that statement.
…you’re going to hack off the Muz N Bathhouse Queen
Nice job boys and girls. Keep it up.
I’m not a supporter of this group but when leaders don’t protect their citizens then citizens should help out if and when they can.
ObamaTheTurd is a joke and is King Anonymous.
God Bless the USA!
keep up the good work , because oboma won’t let nsa do anything to stop them , he has them hacking our phones and internet ,
I bet their budget is less than the CIA and NSA blow on hookers.
ROFLMAO!!!
Whew! Bet that touched a few nerves somewhere in the District of Columbia! LOL
Usually the truth does cut close to the bone, We spend Billions to fund them and they can’t catch a terrorist if they nuked a city and a bunch of white hat and black hat hackers are doing what they can’t or wont do….
You might start by not calling them Isis….start calling them Sisi….that is what they are cowards to their core.
They’re like vigilantes. Go Anonymous!!!
You go, anonymous…..the taxpayers no longer have a viable government in the U.S.
Anonymous, go after their money.