Zone-H: Islamic Hacker Arrested in Paris

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Via Zone-H.

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On Tuesday , 2/21/2006, the Moroccan hacker known as Yanis was arrested in Metz by the Paris PJ. Anyway he got out of 
prison after 20 hours and he is waiting for judgement.

Yanis is accused of having defaced several French important websites (university of Strasbourg and Toulouse, website of 
the city of Lyon etc..), but his activity as defacer is far more complex: Zone-h, the independent observatory of 
cyber-crime, have monitored nearly 3000 notifications of intrusions in the last month related to the Prophet Mohammed 
digital Ummah protest (about 710 are by Yanis) while in his whole illegal “carreer” he compromised 1161 websites.

Besides, Zone-h highlighted that the attacks pursued by Islamic hackers have noticeably increased after the spreading 
out of the Prophet Mohammed cartoons issue, and many defacements, like those by Yanis, clearly show, sometimes 
violently and offensively, their blame for Danish and more generally Western attitude.

Relating to this point, the French magistrate charged a heavy count of indictment on Yanis, who is accused of “Apology 
of war crime and incitation to racial hate”, because of his hacking activity on Danish websites. The accusation focuses 
on his commitment in the boycott campaign against Danish products.

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More:
http://www.zone-h.org/en/news/read/id=205990/

- ferg


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 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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