Anonymous Hactivist Group Has Islamic State in Their Sights

“From now on, no safe place for you online,” Anonymous has said to Islamic State in a statement.

The hacktivist group has recently started taking over Islamic State’s biggest and baddest websites and social media accounts, especially the propaganda ones that brainwash impressionable young recruits into joining their cause.

Sunday has been the group’s biggest act against Islamic State yet, when they published a long list of over a thousand Islamic State recruitment websites, email addresses and social media accounts. all of which they claim their RedCult team have “exposed and destroyed”.

“Remember, the terrorists that are calling themselves Islamic State (IS) are not Muslims,” -Anonymous released in a statement.

“ISIS, we will hunt you, take down your sites, accounts, emails, and expose you. From now on, no safe place for you online.
You will be treated like a virus and we are the cure. We own the Internet.”

Anonymous has been claiming to be actively shutting down Islamic State’s presence on the Internet since June of last year, but Paris’s Charlie Hedbo shootings of January 7th have encouraged them to become more determined in their efforts.

Twitter has been paying attention to Anonymous’s published lists of Islamic State propaganda accounts and suspending them accordingly.

Anonymous have spoken out about the extremist militants numerous times, not the least of which was mid-last year when a source told Forbes magazine the hacktivist group was also targeting Middle Eastern states who were benefiting in some way from Islamic State’s actions.

“We plan on sending a straightforward message to Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and all other countries that evidently supply ISIS for their own gain,” the source said.

“In the next few days we will begin defacing the government websites of these countries so that they understand this message clearly.

We are unable to target ISIS because they predominantly fight on the ground. But we can go after the people or states who fund them.”

While a lot of the big claims Anonymous was making early on seemed a bit too bold, they appear to be making good on it now and a lack of online presence indeed makes it more difficult for the extremists to recruit new militants.