19,000 French Websites Either Defaced or DDoS’ed

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. Defacements had the message: ‘The Islamic State Stay Inchallah, Free Palestine, Death to France, Death to Charlie.’

The French military’s head of cyberdefense, Admiral Arnaud Coustilliere, says most of these attacks were carried out by three Islamic hacker groups: Middle East Cyber Army, Fallaga team and Cyber Caliphate.

Two of the Paris terror attackers claimed allegiances to Al-Qaida in Yemen and a third to the Islamic State group.

Cyber activist group Anonymous on Thursday launched an operation dubbed #OpCharlieHebdo, whose aim is to target and takedown jihadists websites and social network accounts belonging to terrorists. They have the public to participate by reporting Twitter accounts of suspected terrorists.