Hackers claiming to be affiliated with the Islamic State have managed
to shut down the Telegram channel belonging to Syrian activists
reporting out of the besieged city of Raqqa, the main ISIS bastion in
the country. The hackers did it by abusing the platform’s reporting
mechanism.
The “United Cyber Caliphate” group said one its “battalions” attacked the Telegram channel “Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently,” the group in Raqqa that monitors abuses and life under Islamic State rule. The ISIS hackers bragged about the closure and said “more disastrous and more bitter things were to come.”
The group later confirmed on Twitter that their channel had been closed. The method of using the reporting systems of social media platforms’ has been employed by Anonymous hacktivists who track and report on thousands of accounts affiliated by ISIS, managing to take them down, as Vocativ has reported in the past.
The “United Cyber Caliphate” group said one its “battalions” attacked the Telegram channel “Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently,” the group in Raqqa that monitors abuses and life under Islamic State rule. The ISIS hackers bragged about the closure and said “more disastrous and more bitter things were to come.”
The group later confirmed on Twitter that their channel had been closed. The method of using the reporting systems of social media platforms’ has been employed by Anonymous hacktivists who track and report on thousands of accounts affiliated by ISIS, managing to take them down, as Vocativ has reported in the past.
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