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FBI Issues Warning About This Type Of ISIS-Inspired Terror Attack On 9/11
An ISIS-affiliated group of hackers has threatened to launch the kind of attack America’s top law enforcement official fears the most to mark the 14th anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks upon America.
“Will penetrate…governmental sites in September 11 to commemorate the destroyed skyscrapers,” threatened one recent tweet from the so-called “Islamic Cyber Army.”
The FBI has taken the threat seriously. On Thursday the FBI issued a notification to companies doing business with the U.S. government. The FBI told businesses that they need to be able to defend their networks should hackers try to “commemorate the anniversary of the terrorist attacks” with more serious action.
“ICA would most likely seek to attack targets of opportunity based on technical vulnerabilities and a perceived connection to the United States or other Western countries,” the FBI notice said. “Web site defacements and/or any possible unauthorized releases … of personally identifiable information (PII) by ICA likely would be accompanied by messages expressing support for ISIL (ISIS), and possibly language threatening additional cyber or physical terrorist attacks.”
ICA has “hacked and defaced” certain government websites, the FBI warned. It said similar campaigns by “extremist cyber actors” have targeted networks associated with the U.S. government and banking industry. ICA is an “ISI[S]-sympathetic hacking group,” made up like-minded hackers from the “Elite Islamic State Hackers” and other groups, the FBI notice said.
This latest threat follows claims from Twitter users calling themselves #AmericaUnderHacks, that they possess sensitive information about U.S. government personnel. Some of that information released previously has been found to be old or easily available to the public.
The potential cyber capacity of ISIS has been a growing concern.
“Concern that ISIS or any of our foreign enemies might develop (cyber) capacity … is the thing that keeps me and many of my colleagues in law enforcement up at night,” Attorney General Loretta Lynch said this summer. Lynch said at the time that ISIS had more than 20,000 English-language Twitter followers.
h/t: ABC News
Source: http://www.westernjournalism.com/fbi-issues-warning-about-this-type-of-isis-inspired-terror-attack-on-911/
