Anti-’ISIL’ Hackers Attack Takfiri Accounts

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The international war effort against "ISIL" had been bearing little fruit, as the group now threatens to turn Gaza into another one of its strongholds, a report by RT declared.

The hacker collective, known as Ghost Security or GhostSec has combined forces with two other groups CtrlSec and the famous Anonymous, to stem the tide of online extremism and save lives by getting everyone involved, as well as passing sensitive information on directly to the appropriate authorities.

Furthermore, the combined collective's six-month-old effort had earned massive praise from all the relevant people.

"ISIL" had made Twitter its electronic battlefield as the Takfiri supporters had been running a sum of accounts, but hackers the world over had been waging their own battle against the extremists.

"We have taken offline over 100 websites and suspended over 55,000 Twitter accounts," GhostSec and CtrlSec's representative Mikro who spoke in anonymity said in the report.

He further asserted that some accounts had to be shut two-three times a day, he said. "We are literally stalking" those accounts.

"We are getting reports from everywhere that we are helping a lot, so I think... we have done more than we actually are aware of ourselves," he added.

Nonetheless, Mikro believed that authorities had great use for the hackers beyond their skill set of just hacking or taking things offline. Whenever there are signs human lives might be in danger, "we are contacting the ones who can actually prevent something."

Mikro said that online discussions between "ISIL" militants often include bomb-making instructions, and that high positions in the terrorist organization often had to do with how much money a member had.

Meanwhile, the group set up an online option on the GhostSec website for submitting any information that may be of use to them in their campaign. "If we are able to save a life... then those six months we have been doing this for one life is worth it" indicating that everybody can do something to help and that "public effort really matters... that's important".

The hackers' representative confirmed that "we are watching pictures of what they are doing, the things you are hearing about in the news... we see that. The news you see has been censored, and we see these things raw. They are using a lot of violence in their propaganda".

The newly-formed hacker conglomerate is one of many civilian forces in the world which was trying to make a difference.

Source: RT, Edited by website team