Research on What Motivates ISIS -- and Other -- Fighters

Interesting research from Nature Human Behaviour: "The devoted actor's will to fight and the spiritual dimension of human conflict": Abstract: Frontline investigations with fighters against the Islamic State ISIL or ISIS, combined with multiple online studies, address willingness to fight and die...

July 7, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Spiderman” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! July 7, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Residents of these states ar...

Pro-ISIS group hacks Ohio Governor’ site with anti-Trump message

By Waqas Team System DZ, a pro-ISIS Daesh hacking group from Algeria is back in the news. This time the group has targeted the government of United States and defaced several Ohio State websites including the official website of Governor John Kasich. The hackers left a deface page along with a...

Risk of Election Day Cyberattacks Low According To Cyber Chatter

Security experts monitoring cyber-chatter for virtual and real-world threats against U.S. Election Day targets say so far, so good. They don’t believe there will be cyberattack or al-Qaeda terror attack come Election Day. That’s not to say the U.S. government isn’t ready for the worst. The White...

Hacker Steals Money from Bank and Donates $11,000 to Anti-ISIS Group

Meet this Robin Hood Hacker: Phineas Fisher, who breached Hacking Team last year, revealed on Reddit Wednesday that he hacked a bank and donated the money to Kurdish anti-capitalists in Rojava autonomous region in northern Syria that borders territory held by the ISIS Islamic State militant group...

Twitter Denies Intelligence Community Fire Hose Access Via Dataminr

A Twitter business partner, whose service sifts through Twitter’s so-called fire hose of tweets as well as data from other sources to ascertain patterns in breaking news events, has been told to no longer provide its services to the U.S. intelligence community. The Wall Street Journal on Sunday...

Unskilled Pro-ISIS Hackers A Growing Threat

Hackers sympathetic to ISIS may lack the funding and talent of government-sponsored hackers, but they merit attention because of their promotion of physical violence and ability to incite others via social media to target individuals or groups. A report today by security company Flashpoint points...

Pro-ISIS Hackers release 'Kill List' Of 43 United States Officials

In Brief A group of pro-ISIS hackers calling themselves the United Cyber Caliphate UCC has issued a "Kill List" containing the names of dozens of U.S. government personnel at the Pentagon, Department of Homeland Security, State Department, and several other federal agencies. Meanwhile, the US...

Facebook Offering You $1000 to Run Advertisement Against Terrorism

Over a past few times, we have seen a steady growth in the online recruitment of Jihadis from social networking sites by many radical groups. ISIS has topped the online recruitment, and it is the only terror group that leverages the enormous power of Twitter and Facebook to radicalize young minds...

602 Gbps! This May Have Been the Largest DDoS Attack in History

Cyber attacks are getting evil and worst nightmare for companies day-by-day, and the Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attack is one of the favorite weapon for hackers to temporarily suspend services of a host connected to the Internet. Until now, nearly every big website had been a victim of th...

Another ISIS Hacker Killed by U.S Drone Strike in Syria

A British-educated businessman who later joined Islamic State ISIS militant group in Syria has been killed in a US drone strike. Siful Haque Sujan, a Bangladesh-born man, was killed on 10 December 2015 by a US drone strike near Raqqa, Syria. Sujan has been described as one of the ISIS's top...

Anonymous Declares War On Donald Trump — #OpTrump

After targeting the Islamic State ISIS group in the wake of Deadly terror attacks in Paris, hacktivist group Anonymous has now turned its attention to controversial US presidential candidate Donald Trump. The hacktivist group has declared war against Donald Trump following his recent radical spee...

Save the Date — 11th December: Anonymous to Celebrate 'ISIS Trolling Day'

After hacking and taking down social media accounts of ISIS members, the online Hacktivist group Anonymous is back again with its new plan to harass the Islamic State IS militant group that was behind the horrific terror attack in Paris. Anonymous declared total war against ISIS after the last...

Hacker Claims He helped FBI Track Down ISIS Hacker (Who was killed in Drone-Strike)

Remember Junaid Hussain? Junaid Hussain – a hacker turned ISIS cyber mastermind who was killed in a US drone strike in August this year. But something has emerged what we don't know about the death of Hussain. The infamous hacker who in the past hacked the Anonymous pseudo-official Twitter...

Anonymous Hacking Group Takes Down 20,000 ISIS Twitter accounts

In the wake of horrific terror attacks in Paris, the online Hacktivist group Anonymous last week declared "total war" against the Islamic State militant group ISIS that claimed responsibility for the attacks. While French, Russian, and US military are bombing ISIS from the sky, Anonymous members...

Telegram — Secret Messaging app — Shuts Down 78 ISIS Channels

The terrorist groups affiliated with the Islamic State have an extensive presence not only on social media accounts but also on the popular end-to-end encrypted messaging app Telegram through which they communicate with their followers and spread terror propaganda materials. Telegram has always...

Hey ISIS! Check Out How 'Idiot' Anonymous Hackers Can Disrupt your Online Propaganda

The online Hacktivist group Anonymous declared War against the Islamic State militant group ISIS that claimed responsibility for the horrific terrorist attacks that rocked Paris last week. In response to the Anonymous’ warning of launching their "biggest operation ever" against the terrorist grou...

ISIS Calls Anonymous "IDIOTS" and Issues 5 Lame Tips for its Members to Avoid Getting Hacked

The Anonymous Hacking group on Sunday declared Total War against the ISIS, the Islamic State terror organization that claimed responsibility for the Paris attacks on Friday that killed 129 people and hundreds more injured. In a sinister video posted on YouTube, the Cyber Hacktivists said they wil...

Would Encryption Backdoor Stop Paris-like Terror Attacks?

With 129 people killed in Paris terror attacks and dozens critically wounded, the law enforcement and intelligence officials are reviving their efforts to force companies to put some backdoors in encryption so that they can access your information. How did the Intelligence agencies fail to...

Paris Attacks — NO! We Can't Blame Edward Snowden and Encryption for Terror Attacks

Terrorist groups are increasingly using high-grade, advanced end-to-end encryption technologies so that no law enforcement can catch them. The deadliest terror attacks in Paris that killed 129 people were the latest example of it. How did the Terrorists Communicate and Organize the Plot? The Pari...