November 03, 2007

Online Jihadis To Launch Cyber-Attacks In November

With al-Qaeda on the ropes in Iraq, and a long, cold winter to look forward to in Afghanistan, it seems bin Laden's buddies are looking for easier pickings.
Enter the 1337 cyber-jihad warriors, to crush sites like The Jawa Report with their mad hacker skillz.

From Northeast Intelligence Network:

A variety of messages on Arabic language web sites are rallying Islamic hackers worldwide, especially those in the U.S., Canada and the UK to participate in a virtual jihad against anti-terrorism Internet web sites that shine the light of truth on the non-Muslim sites. Consistent with an article published by DEBKA this week, analysts of the Northeast Intelligence Network have found messages in near template format announcing the launch of an “electronic jihad” against Western, Jewish, Israeli, Muslim apostate sites in the coming days, and other messages attempting to recruit additional Muslim “warriors” in their efforts to exact revenge on sites that report the truth behind their worldwide jihad.

The initial announcement was picked up by researchers on Monday, the same day as Debka’s counter-terrorism sources. According to the investigation performed by the cyber investigations unit of the Northeast Intelligence Network, English speaking Muslim college students in western countries, especially inside North America, have signed on to hack and deface open source news sites first. Concurrent with that endeavor, the hackers will attempt to strike government sites and online sites of importance to our infrastructure, from utilities to banks. As many of these hackers are in the United States and Canada, many who attend our universities and are adept at hacking skills, this most recent virtual jihad could well cause interruptions; system administrators should be vigilant in the upcoming days and weeks to potential vulnerabilities.

Oops. I just soiled myself.
I mean... that's some scary sh*t, right there.
A bunch of radical Muslim college students and out-of-work insurgents are planning to launch a minor inconvenience against us!!
Someone... please hold me.

As noted in the article quoted above, many of these would-be cyber-jihadists are residents of western nations like the US, UK and Canada.
Good! It will be that much easier to round their sorry asses up and prosecute them.