Australian government issues warning over ‘ISIS hacks’
Australia’s federal government has issued a warning over the spate of recent website hacks claiming to have links with extremist group ISIS.
Australia’s federal government has issued a warning over the spate of recent website hacks claiming to have links with extremist group ISIS.
Is ISIS Behind BBC’s ‘Operational error’ that Interrupted its Broadcast and Left presenter flustered? Supposedly, BBC News Channel fell prey to a cyber-attack from ISIS when ‘hackers’ were able to interrupt the channel’s live broadcast and upload propaganda material of Islamic State. The appearance of the words “Je suIS IS” on TV Screens left viewers stunned […]
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has warned the WordPress users and urged them to patch their plugins of the content management system in the wake of recent ISIS hacks and future possibilities. In the recent past, the ISIS supporting cyber criminals have hacked the self-hosted WordPress websites and because of the unpatched plugins […]
Hackers supporting the Islamic State (IS, previously ISIS/ISIL) conducted a successful cyber attack on French television network TV5Monde, taking over full control of network’s broadcast, Facebook page and websites on Wednesday evening. Yves Bigot, the director general of TV’s broadcast told AFP that: “We are no longer able to broadcast any of our channels. Our websites and social […]
The Anonymous hacktivist group has just released a list of websites allegedly supporting the ISIS extremist group. The list also contains names of companies hosting or protecting these sites from DDoS and other cyber attacks. Originally, this list was compiled by “GhostSec” (A group working with other hacktivists to expose social media accounts, websites and other handles […]
Anonymous hacktivist group continues its efforts to expose social media profiles of the notorious rebel group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria/ISIS militants and its supporters by gathering a list of 26,000 plus Twitter handles of alleged connections of the extremist group. Earlier in March, a CtrlSec outfit member that is active online by the nick […]
On March 21st, a group of pro-ISIS hackers from Morocco, going with the handle of Team System DZ hacked into the server of Wisconsin’s Richland County, defacing several high-profile websites including the country’s Sheriffs department website. Other targeted sites include City of Richland Center Municipality, Parks Commission, Ambulance Service, Richland County Fair & Recycling, Land Conservation department and Richland county Fitness center. Hackers […]
ISIS Wants Supporters To Kill a Hundred of its “Hacked Hit List” U.S. Military Employees. The Islamic State (ISIS) posted the names, pictures and addresses of 100 U.S. military personnel urging its “brothers residing in America” to slay them. In response to this post, the Pentagon stated that an investigation into the matter was immediately […]
A number of seemingly unconnected Western websites were hacked over the weekend, with messages claiming Islamic State as the perpetrator.
A threatening message from the ISIS supporters has surfaced on the internet on Sunday, containing death threats to the Twitter employees. This has happened because the website has deleted certain Twitter accounts which were found related to the terrorist organization. This threat message was posted on JustPaste.it and it aims at Twitter founder Jack Dorsey. […]
Isis supporter compromised Chile’s Ministry of Defense website on Monday night and left a message “Hacked” on its homepage, www.ssdefensa.cl, along with the username “Saddam Hussein.” The hacker’s message said, “Sorry Admin Because Your Site Security is Low WE aRe ISIS,” in English, whereas in Spanish the message read, “Somos ISIS, no me olviden” (We […]
On 14th February, 2015, when people were busy celebrating Valentines day; the ISIS hackers were busy targeting UAE’s oldest Arabic language newspaper Al Ittihad. The ISIS hackers successfully hacked and defaced Al Ittihad website with logo of their own including a black flag with Arabic text and three militants dressed in soldiers’ attire holding rifles. The Abu Dhabi based editor-in-chief […]
The official Twitter account of world renowned American based Newsweek Magazine was hacked by Cyber Caliphate, a pro-ISIS hacker who previously had hacked Malaysian Airlines Website and other U.S military social media accounts. On Tuesday, the verified @Newsweek Twitter account with 2.51M had its profile picture and banner changed to a masked man with words like “CyberCaliphate” and “Je su ISIS.” The […]
The online hacktivist Anonymous has claimed that it took down about 800 Twitter accounts and 12 Facebook pages belonging or somehow supporting the terrorist group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS). The operation was conducted under the banner of #OpISIS but originally announced after the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris. Anonymous had announced that it would […]
The hacktivist group Anonymous has attacked the terrorist organization Islamic State (ISIS) on a large scale. ISIS has a very strong social media presence and in this attack, its numerous accounts were taken down. ISIS uses these accounts to spread its propaganda and recruit new members. ISIS was believed to be responsible for the attack […]
On Thu, 02 Jan 2014, a Kurdish hacker going with the handle of Anonymous Kurdistan & Muhmad Emad hacked two Turkish government websites belonging to the Afyonkarahisar Provincial Disaster and Emergency Management (Afyonkarahisar is a city in western Turkey, the capital of Afyon Province), asking the Turkish government to stop supporting the ISIS terrorist group. The hacker left […]
The official website of Malaysian Airlines has been hacked and defaced by Cyber Caliphate, the ISIS supporting hacking group. Visitors on the Malaysian Airlines website malaysiaairlines.com currently can see deface page along with a message rather than the original site content related to flight booking schedule. The hackers also changed the website’s description to ISIS will Prevail […]
It seems that the tiny county in southeastern Virginia is the new victim of the pro-ISIS hackers as Team System DZ hacked the county’s website on Friday evening. Team System DZ, an Algerian based hacking team left a deface page along with “I love ISIS” message that appeared before 9 p.m. ET at the top […]
NATO is assisting its member nations and partners to fend off cyberthreats. One such effort, NATO Science for Peace and Security (SPS), was launched on 1 October 2014 to support Jordan in its war against ISIS or ISIL. The NATO has set up a team of cyber experts to help Jordan defend its key infrastructure points […]
NATO’s cyber security drills are underway in Estonia and are most likely to replicate attacks launched by the cyber wing of Islamic State (IS, previously ISIS/ISIL) and Russia. Around 400 experts from 16 countries are participating in the “Locked Shield” exercise this year. The cyber war drills are organized by NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), taking place […]
PayPal has warned of a looming security crisis if new top-level domains such as .bank are brought into use later this year.