http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2007/11/12/cyber_jihad_awol/
Cyber-jihad fails to materialise By John <http://forms.theregister.co.uk/mail_author/?story_url=/2007/11/12/cyber_jih ad_awol/> Leyden Published Monday 12th November 2007 11:35 GMT A much hyped cyber-jihad by Islamist s'kiddie hackers on Western websites failed to materialise on Sunday. The SANS Institute's Internet Storm Centre reports <http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=3633> (http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=3633) that 11 November passed off normally. So Bruce Willis, fresh from a cinematic outing battling cybergeddon in Die Hard 4pointless.0 can hang up his miraculous colour-changing singlet. Rumours of the planned attack first surfaced in Israeli intelligence magazine DEBKAfile late last week. It reported that an Islamist website was calling on true believers to mount an attack on the forces of Western, Jewish, Israeli, Muslim apostate and Shiite Websites. Rather than launching the supposed assault without notice and through a network of compromised machines, the Islamists are reportedly looking to rally recruits to download a package called Electronic Jihad Version 2.0. Instructions on how to use the malign version of [EMAIL PROTECTED] for would-be cyber-jihadis will be made available across an impenetrable email network, the organisers of the effort reportedly claim. Days later a revamped DIY DDoS package - dubbed Electronic Program of Jihad - surfaced online. Others tools also arrived on the scene. Finnish anti-virus firm F-Secure downloaded one such a tool, a package called E-Jihad30.exe from a site named al-jinan.net (the site is now inactive). "This tool creates a botnet using a server at jo-uf.net - a domain registered to Iraq," it reports <http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00001315.html> (http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00001315.html). "However, we've been monitoring this server all day and its IP address continues to point to 127.0.0.1. So at least regarding this botnet, nothing's gonna happen." It's not the first time rumours of a forthcoming cyber-jihad have surfaced. In December 2006, the US Department of Homeland Security warned banks and infrastructure firm of a possible electronic attack. Nothing much happened then either. The DHS might argue that the warning caused the attack to be aborted or defences to be put in place in time. Rather than mass attacks that fail to materialise, the pattern of low-level attacks (often featuring web defacements) by Islamic hackers is real and has been ongoing for some time. Defacement activities tend to flare up when incidents like the depiction of the Prophet Mohammed by Danish newspapers hit the news, but they remain at a low level more or less constantly. R [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
