Anonymous Charlie Hebdo - Hacker group "Anonymous" said Saturday that they have hacked a jihadist website in retaliation for the attacks on French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, wherein 12 people, including eight journalists, were murdered, reports The Telegraph.
French jihadist website ansar-alhaqq.net now reportedly redirects viewers to a search engine named Duck Duck Go. Hackers behind the Twitter handle @OpCharlieHebdo have claimed responsibility for the hacking.
@OpCharlieHebdo has posted a photo on the social networking site saying the group had already taken down a French website affiliated with Islamist extremists, as part of the Anonymous Charlie Hebdo retaliation.
"#TangoDown : https://ansar-alhaqq.net ," the tweet read.
"Expect us. #JeSuisCharlie #OpCharlieHebdo #CharlieHebdo"
#TangoDown : https://t.co/rHJrjTZ8mA Expect us. #JeSuisCharlie #OpCharlieHebdo#CharlieHebdo pic.twitter.com/RK7gBWr8QS
- OpCharlieHebdo (@OpCharlieHebdo) January 10, 2015
While Ansar-alhaqq.net had been unusable more than an hour following the hacktivist group's announcement, as news website Mashable reported, the website is now up and running.
The Anonymous Charlie Hebdo revenge on the jihadists also involve the hacktivist group naming dozens of Twitter accounts that they say belong to the extremists. Anonymous reportedly posted the Twitter handles on Pastebin, a website that which allows the public to post information anonymously online.
These recent string of online attacks are the first Anonymous Charlie Hebdo activities that the group claims to have done, successfully disrupting their first target, according to Al Arabiya News.
The Anonymous Charlie Hebdo retaliation in response to the extremist attacks comes after the group declared war on the Islamic extremists Friday, with the use of hacking operation "#OpCharlieHebdo.
They released a video and a statement via Twitter announcing their condemnation of the attacks on Charlie Hebdo.
The Anonymous Charlie Hebdo revenge video was described by the online experts as "a message for al-Qaeda, the Islamic State and other terrorists." The chilling video was reportedly uploaded to the group's Belgian account.
The Anonymous Charlie Hebdo revenge video, posted via YouTube, shows the hackers saying their intention of tracking down websites and social media networks linked to the terrorists, in order to take them down.
The Anonymous Charlie Hebdo retaliation clip showed a figure donning the group's symbolic Guy Fawkes mask. The person was seated in front of a desk with the hashtag #OpCharlieHebdo on screen.
"We, Anonymous around the world, have decided to declare war on you the terrorists," the figure said.
The hackers said the Anonymous Charlie Hebdo video was a message for "al Qaeda, the Islamic State and other terrorists," promising their intent to avenge the deaths of the journalists the previous week.
Posted on Pastebin, the clip was backed by a statement entitled "a message to the enemies of freedom of expression" the hacker collective offered their condolences to "the families of the victims of this cowardly and despicable act".
Anonymous is a group of activists and hackers claiming to defend and protect democracy. It remains unclear as to who or what Anonymous' leadership or base is.
In the past, Anonymous has also hacked websites and carried out cyber attacks on government, religious, and corporate websites by distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, in an attempt to overwhelm an online service so that their users can no longer access them.
The Charlie Hebdo attack has ignited solidarity amongst the French public, with some news organizations even republishing the magazine's most controversial cartoons -- including the Prophet Mohammed, CNN reported.
The Anonymous Charlie Hebdo retaliation can be described as amongst the many actions that supporting anti-terrorism in Paris, which also included world leaders who have marched in the country Sunday, along with millions of people. The huge gathering has been described as the largest in France's history by the French Mission to the United Nations.
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