A residential area of Aleppo, after a bombing in 2014. Photo by Freedom House via Flickr (CC BY 2.0)
The ISIS cyber army has allegedly hacked the website of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights watchdog on July 8, 2015, and threatened its Syrian director, Rami Abdelrahman, for his role in documenting human rights abuses committed by all parties in the ongoing war in Syria.
The news was confirmed by Reuters. SITE Intel Group also reported the hack on the UK-based site:
“Cyber Army of the Khilafah” Purportedly Hacks Website of Syrian Observatory for Human Rights http://t.co/2KITr5dGvH pic.twitter.com/DIjNckAVPp
— SITE Intel Group (@siteintelgroup) July 8, 2015
The cyber attack was made by the group, affiliated with ISIS, which calls itself the Cyber Army of the Khilafah, or the self-proclaimed Caliphate, which covers large swaths of territory across Syria and Iraq.
Below is a screenshot of the site, which is now down.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights website is down, after being allegedly hacked by ISIS supporters
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This article by Rami Alhames originally appeared on advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org on July 09, 2015 at 07:54PM
