19,000 French Websites Hit By DDoS, Defaced In Wake of Terror Attacks

An anonymous reader writes Since the three day terror attack that started in France on January 7 with the attack on satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, 19,000 websites of French-based companies have been targeted by cyber attackers. This unprecedented avalanche of cyber attacks targeted both government sites and that of big and small businesses. Most were low-level DDoS attacks, and some were web defacements. Several websites in a number of towns in the outskirts of Paris have been hacked and covered with an image of an ISIS flag. The front pages of the official municipality websites have been covered with the Jihadist militant group's black flag. In a report, Radware researchers noted that Islamic hacker group AnonGhost has also launched a "digital jihad" against France.

Comments

Beats using bullets

[Anonymous Coward]

A slightly better form of protest than AK47's I guess.

Re:Beats using bullets

[fuzzyfuzzyfungus]

Can you think of any good targets? Religious radicals with a...vehemently...nostalgic enthusiasm for an imaginary medieval ideal tend not to be on the cutting edge of technology and culture production.

Come to think of it, a movement with that sort of ready access to alienated 20something guys who loath the foundations of the society around them could probably be competitive in the production of Punk, and maybe some metal subgenres, except that they think all that stuff is haram. Oh well.

Re:Beats using bullets

[fuzzyfuzzyfungus]

Inconveniently, there isn't enough epistemological common ground for asking for justification to work terribly well. Religions based on revelation(which includes islam, along with the other Abrahamic monotheisms, and a number of others to greater or lesser degrees) consider 'because god said so.' to be not only not a shoddy cop-out; but to be the best, most certain, category of justification.

Exactly how it is that they came to know that god said so(since he didn't say so to them; but allegedly to some other guy, now dead, can be a little touchy; but I've rarely found it to be a productive avenue for discussion.

Re:Beats using bullets

[CohibaVancouver]

Can you think of any good targets?

Saudi Arabia - Sheiks, bankers. After all, they're the one pulling the strings of their 'jihadist' puppets.

Re:Beats using bullets

[gl4ss]

lots of good targets.. hack their sms gateways, post shit about the people who try to benefit from west hate(plenty of such people. they benefit from it locally, like selling usa flags for burning you know, most of them don't really care shit about what happens 10 km from them), hack the islamist nations sites and put on information on how to bypass their censorships, links to news sites, links to just sites about their own countries laws so they understand that the local warlords are fucking them up the ass and that the tribe shit belongs to 17th century and they - their ability to learn how technology works, the future of their occupational careers, the future of their wealth and health - is all getting fucked up by extremists who claim the west is exploiting them when the worst exploiter for any one of them is the village chief and corruption! corruption includes paying thugs to go shoot neighboring village up with ak47's to "gain advantage" on price of khat or whatever the fuck their petty dealings center around.

Re:Better a DDOS

[cold fjord]

Unfortunately it is an "AND", not an "OR".

Re:comment

[Noah Haders]

I'd say the biggest blow to civil liberties was when islamists went into a newspaper office and killed everybody. that's what I call a chilling effect.