GhostSec, one of the Anonymous splinter groups, has escalated its “war” on Isis to the darknet and replaced Isis propaganda site with an advert for Prozac in an obviously trolling move. The targeted website was a fresh forum set up within the Tor darknet by Isis. The suggestions are that the portal was launched in response to Anonymous taking down hundreds of the terrorist group’s websites on the open Internet.
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Anonymous replaced all content on the site with an advert for an online pharmacy and posted the following statement: “Too Much ISIS. Enhance your calm. Too many people are into this ISIS-stuff. Please gaze upon this lovely ad so we can upgrade our infrastructure to give you ISIS content you all so desperately crave.” Initially, GhostSec took the website in question offline a few days ago, but the terrorist group managed to reinstate it, although many security researchers pointed out that Isis had used very poor security means for its protection.
We should remind that Anonymous officially announced its war against Isis on Twitter several months ago and started taking its websites offline. Then, in the wake of the Paris attacks, the hacking collective stepped up operations and even requested crowdsourced help.
The position of the authorities is ambiguous: some believe that such hacking collectives as Anonymous, GhostSec and Ghost Security Group hinder the investigations of security services, while others (including the UK Home Office security minister John Hayes) admit they are actually grateful for people fighting against “this kind of wickedness” by any available means.
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SaM.
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