Anonymous Threaten ISIS After Belgium Attacks
Just like last November, after the Paris terror attacks, Anonymous has come forward and issued a threat against the Islamic State terrorist group, warning of impending cyber-attacks.
In a video posted on YouTube, the group says, "We have fought daily against terrorism and we have silenced thousands of Twitter accounts directly linked to ISIS."
"We severely punished Daesh on the Darknet, hacked their electronic portfolio, and stole money from the terrorists. We have laid siege to your propaganda websites, tested them with our cyber attacks," the group also adds.
All of their statements are accurate since we have reported on many of the incidents in the past months. Unfortunately, outside a simple reaction from ISIS, which called the hackers "idiots," the terror group has hardly been affected by Anonymous' actions.
Despite taking down over 125,000 Twitter accounts, ISIS has retained a strong online presence, and just as one account was taken down, another one was also set up.
No matter Anonymous' good intentions, their strategy of hacking propaganda sites and reporting Twitter accounts has barely put a dent in the group's real-world activities, and as proof stand yesterday's attacks in Brussels, Belgium.
Sure, it may be nice to see headlines of "Anonymous pwns ISIS" once in a while, but these attacks are hardly wounding Daesh's activities in any way, and the group may need to look for other methods of sabotaging Daesh, or just leave it in the hands of official investigators.
A bigger role in sabotaging ISIS had one disgruntled Daesh member who stole a list containing the real identities of 22,000 ISIS members when he left the group.
