'ANONYMOUS' PLANS CYBER WARFARE AGAINST COUNTRIES THAT SUPPORT ISIS

by JORDAN SCHACHTEL 1 Jul 2014, 5:50 PM PDT

Hacktivist group Anonymous is said to be planning a series of cyber attacks against countries it accuses of arming and abetting the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) militant jihadist group.

According to Forbes, the Anonymous campaign will be called Operation NO2ISIS. The hackers will attempt to subdue three countries they suspect have been financing and arming ISIS. A source told Forbes that they plan a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack aimed at rendering government websites inoperable. The source said Anonymous had plans to “unleash” its “entire legion” upon the three targeted states.

The Sunni Muslim Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is said to be one of the targets of the upcoming cyber attack. Saudi Arabia has often been accused of financing not just ISIS but also other radical jihadi such as Al Qaeda and the Al Nusra Front in Syria.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/07/01/Anonymous-Hacktivist-Group-Plans-Cyber-Warfare-Against-Countries-That-Support-ISIS?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

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Are Russia and Ukraine on the Verge of an All-Out Cyberwar?

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/03/cyber-war-ukraine-russia

Ukraine original: DDima/Wikimedia Commons; ASCII effect: DeGraeve.com. Photoillustration byMatt Connolly.

For the past week, reports of physical violence have been rolling out of Ukraine: Russian troops storming a base in Crimea, officers beating journalists, and violent brawls at rallies. But as tensions escalate, another part of the conflict appears to be playing out in a cloudier realm: cyberspace.

On Saturday, Ukraine's top security agency—the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine—announced at a briefing that it had been hit by severe denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, "apparently aimed at hindering a response to the challenges faced by our state." This comes on the heels of a number of alleged hacks involving Russian and Ukrainian targets, including attacks on news outlets and blocking reception to the cellphones of Ukrainian parliament members.

—By Hannah Levintova

| Wed Mar. 12, 2014 9:16 AM PDT

Iranian cyber warfare commander shot dead in suspected assassination via @Telegraph

Iranian cyber warfare commander shot dead in suspected assassination

The head of Iran’s cyber warfare programme has been shot dead, triggering further accusations that outside powers are carrying out targeted assassinations of key figures in the country’s security apparatus.

The killing of Ahmadi coincides with a new diplomatic effort by President Hassan Rouhani (pictured) Photo: JOHN MINCHILLO/AP

By Damien McElroy, and Ahmad Vahdat

8:00PM BST 02 Oct 2013

Mojtaba Ahmadi, who served as commander of the Cyber War Headquarters, was found dead in a wooded area near the town of Karaj, north-west of the capital, Tehran. Five Iranian nuclear scientists and the head of the country’s ballistic missile programme have been killed since 2007. The regime has accused Israel’s external intelligence agency, the Mossad, of carrying out these assassinations.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/10350285/Iranian-cyber-warfare-commander-shot-dead-in-suspected-assassination.html

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U.S. spy agencies mounted 231 offensive cyber-operations in 2011 - WAPO

U.S. spy agencies mounted 231 offensive cyber-operations in 2011, documents show http://wapo.st/17sEENT via @washingtonpost