Anonymous hacktivists are reportedly planning on “targeting ISIS funding sources”, according to various sources. With no standing army they fight an unconventional asymmetrical type of war against corruption and abuse. Previously Anonymous has taken on the Mexican Drug Cartels, corrupt government officials in 83 different nations and is rumored to have hacked Russian military sites, and targeted US law enforcement and spy agencies.
An anonymous email received last night said the Operation nicknamed “NO2ISIS” and will specifically target three states suspected of offering support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
One of the targets will be Saudi Arabia, a Sunni Muslim monarchy that has long been suspected of supporting ISIS and other hardline terror groups including al-Qaeda and al-Nursa Front.
ISIS has already targeted ISIS twitter accounts and threatened Saudi Arabian government officials, many of whom are waking up to find their emails and websites hacked.
Anonymous is a loosely associated international network of activist and hacktivist entities who operate around the world. A website nominally associated with the group describes it as “an internet gathering” with “a very loose and decentralized command structure that operates on ideas rather than directives”.
Dozens of people have been arrested for involvement in Anonymous cyberattacks, in countries including the US, UK, Australia, the Netherlands, Spain, and Turkey. For every member arrested 100 more take their place.
There are members rumored to be in every government and military in the world.
Because Anonymous has no leadership, no action can be attributed to the membership as a whole. “They operate in a hive mentality”, said one law enforcement official who describes them as elusive. This source asked to remain anonymous himself to protect his identity and prevent Anonymous from targeting his agency computer systems.
“Like ghosts they appear out of nowhere and attack a computer network from multiple points around the world simultaneously. We never seen anything like it before”, he explained.
The first person to be sent to jail for participation in an Anonymous DDoS attack was Dmitriy Guzner, an American nineteen-year-old prodigy. He pled guilty to “unauthorized impairment of a protected computer” after police raided his home in November 2009 and was sentenced to 366 days in US federal prison .
See video: Anonymous vs ISIS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02wenMeSrzc