Hundreds of Islamic State supporters have flocked to an online channel
dedicated to providing tools needed to wage campaigns of cyber terror
across the Internet.
More than 300 people now belong to an ISIS-affiliated forum filled with
users swapping material on how to target and hack into vulnerable networks and
computer systems.They have developed a jihadi e-academy on Telegram, a social
messaging app that ISIS supporters have used previously to share instructions on how to make explosive devices,
hand grenades, suicide belts and Molotov cocktails.
“This channel is dedicated to publishing
courses of hacking and programming languages for the supporters of the
Caliphate on the Internet,” reads the forum, which was formed on Nov. 24—less
than two weeks after ISIS militants waged an orchestrated massacre in the
streets of Paris.
Cyber security experts who reviewed some of the hacker
material shared on Telegram said that it doesn’t provide the type of know-how
required to carry out the kind of catastrophic cyber attack that many of these
experts say is possible. The experts also conceded, however, that it
reflects the group’s budding desire to wage increasingly sophisticated
warfare online.
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