Anonymous Declares War on ’ISIS’ Following Paris Attacks

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The hacktivist group, Anonymous, had posted a video declaring war against "ISIS" following a series of terror attacks in Paris that had left at least 129 people dead.

The activist collective is assembling lists of the Twitter accounts and websites of the extremists, in an attempt to have them taken down.

It began leaking the personal information of suspected extremists.

Organizing under the hashtags [#opISIS and #opParis], the group is attempting to take down the websites and social media accounts of people associated with the "ISIS," as well as apparently release personal details of those involved in recruitment.

To date, according to an in-depth investigation by Foreign Policy, they have taken down 149 Islamic State-related websites and exposed 101,000 Twitter accounts and 5900 propaganda videos.

On Twitter alone, the siege is coordinated by four accounts, the latter three of which are bots - @CtrlSec, @CtrlSec0, @CtrlSec1and @CtrlSec2. Through these, they had unmasked the identities of thousands of "ISIS"-linked Twitter handles over the last nine months.

Activists claim to have successfully had accounts and sites taken down already.

Anonymous began its serious campaign against "ISIS" after the killings at Charlie Hebdo in January. That work included launching attacks on extremist websites and finding extremist accounts on Twitter so that the social network could take them down.

It had continued that work this time around. Its attacks on websites seem to use a distributed denial of service, a technique that overloads a site's servers until they go offline.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team