Through a series of messages posted on official ISIS social media accounts and Telegram channels, the terrorist group has announced the creation of a mega hacking unit called the United Cyber Caliphate (UCC).
The new group consists of the Cyber Caliphate Army (CCA), Daesh's main hacking unit, and other pro-ISIS groups that have carried out attacks supporting the terrorists' cause, such as the Sons Caliphate Army (SCA) and Kalacnikov.TN (KTN).
Earlier in January 2016, Cyber Caliphate Army also You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. with Pro-Palestinian hacking group AnonGhost, a former Anonymous division from which the hacktivist group distanced itself.
ISIS hackers unite to improve their collective skills
The new hacking group is far from being considered a major threat since none of them has ever carried out anything more than simplistic website defacements and small data leaks.
At the start of March, the Cyber Caliphate Army (CCA) You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. when they hacked an SEO company from India called Add Google Online and then bragged about hacking the real Google.
Nevertheless, with all the hackers joining their skills, more dangerous attacks are bound to follow. Since the start of April, security and cyber-intelligence firms like the SITE Intel Group have been tracking UCC's actions.
Since forming, UCC has been very active
Just in the past days, UCC hackers claimed they've hacked the US State Department and leaked info on 50 staff members, ran a mass defacement campaign against Australian websites, defaced the Russian Federal Customs Service, and leaked information on 18,000 employees of the Saudi Ministry of Defense and Aviation.
The group also ran a second mass defacement campaign using the "#KillCrusaders" tag and continued its anti-Christians campaign when it defaced the website of a You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., leaving an ominous Jihadi message behind.
The biggest data breach since UCC formed also happened last week when the group posted the names and addresses of 3,602 of the "most important citizens of #NewYork and #Brooklyn," asking ISIS sympathizers to use the information and carry out lone wolf attacks.
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