The global hacker collective known as Anonymous recently takes down several Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) website, Facebook and Twitter accounts linked to the terrorist.
Anonymous announced Monday that they had "exposed or destroyed" nearly 800 Twitter accounts, 12 Facebook pages and over 50 email addresses that were all suspected to be involved with the terrorist organization.
According to the report that as of this week, many of the ISIS sites remained inaccessible or disabled after members of Anonymous launched attacks, flooding the pages with traffic. Many of the Twitter accounts appeared to be suspended.
The campaign against ISIS started last summer but it was intensified after the cruel attack staged by ISIS militants that killed 12 employees of the Charlie Hebdo newspaper in France. Additionally, one of the hacked ISIS website showed a front page message containing the hashtag #CharlieHebdo.
Following that Jan. 7 attack, which killed several people, Anonymous declared to take vengeance by shutting down jihadist Web sites and accounts on social networks.
Anonymous also claimed that they have posted a video on various video-sharing websites that contains the message, "We are Muslims, Christians, Jews. We are hackers, crackers, Hacktivist, phishers, agents, spies, or just the guy from next door."
It was also reported that another video was posted on Youtube that featured a computer-generated voice speaking over the digitized image of a Guy Fawkes mask and a Matrix-like stream of numbers in the background. The video shows that ISIS is like a virus and that Anonymous is the cure. It also contained the message, "We own the Internet."
The anarchist group is known for waging online attacks everyone from Church of Scientology to US government. This time, however, Anonymous appears to be firmly on the side of the United States when it comes to the battle against ISIS.
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