Hackers shut down Al Qaeda Net communications

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20075560-245/hackers-shut-down-al-qaeda-net-communications/

By Elinor Mills
InSecurity Complex
CNet News
June 29, 2011

Hackers have temporarily shut down Al Qaeda's online distribution of 
videos and statements, NBC News reported today.

"Al-Qaeda's online communications have been temporarily crippled, and it 
does not have a single trusted distribution channel available on the 
Internet," Evan Kohlmann, of Flashpoint Global Partners, told NBC. 
Flashpoint monitors the extremist organization's communications.

The attack happened within the past few days and was "well coordinated 
and involved the use of an unusual cocktail of relatively sophisticated 
techniques," he said, adding that it could be several days before the 
network is up and running again.

No one has claimed credit for the attack, but Kohlmann said it could be 
government-sponsored.

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