The hacking collective known as Anonymous is determined to do whatever they can to cripple ISIS. But apparently Daesh is unphased by the threat from the hackers, “responding” via it’s “official channels” by calling Anonymous “idiots.” Here’s a summary via Newsweek:
The “Islamic Cyber Army” posted a response to Anonymous’s video release on its purported official channel on the privacy app Telegram, giving a series of tips to ISIS supporters. The post was shared by Anonymous-affiliated accounts on social media, such as the group’s Venezuelan arm. Jihadi monitoring network SITE Intelligence also confirmed the post.
“The Anonymous hackers threatened in new video release that they will carry out a major hack operation on the Islamic State (idiots),” ISIS’s post read. “What they gonna hack…all they can do is hacking twitter accounts, emails etc…”
ISIS then talked about how to “protect” their accounts, according to Newsweek:
The militant group then listed a series of steps that its supporters should follow online, including not opening suspicious links, changing their locations using workaround technology on their phones and computers, avoiding contact with unknown people on their phone and computers and to renaming their email addresses.
The post says: “Do not talk to to people u don’t know on telegram and block them if u have to cause there are many glitches in telegram and they can hack you by it. Don’t talk to people on twitter DM cause they can hack u too.
“Do not make your email same as your username on twitter this mistake cost many Ansar (helpers) their accounts and the kuffar published their IP so be careful.”
As if Daesh didn’t already kick a beehive, Anonymous has to be even more driven to take them down.