Ardit Ferizi, known to be the leader of the Kosovar online hacking society in which is known as “Kosava Hacker’s Security (KHS)”. This online hacker has been apprehended by the Malaysian officials, and will soon be handed over to the United States. His crimes are that of leaking personal information and terrorizing the U.S. military as well as government personnel.
Ferizi was arrested and charges put upon him for providing information and material to support ISIS. He is also charged with committing computer hacking and even releasing personally identifiably information of U.S. service members which also includes members of the federal employees.
Ardit Ferizi is going to be handed over to the U.S. attorney’s office in the Eastern District of the state of Virginia in which he will stand trial.
After hacking into the U.S. based company, Ferizi stole the Personal Identifiable Information (PII), of over one thousand U.S. government and federal employees. This may have been dramatically evaded, if Ferizi didn’t just hand over the information to ISIS as ISIS is able to use that information against those employees in which are on that list.
August 11, 2015, there was a tweet in which posted under the title “NEW: U.S. Military AND Government HACKED by the Islamic State Hacking Division!”. This tweet also contained a link to a 30-page document.
Inside of this document, there were known threats from ISIS to the employees in which stated “we are in your emails and computer systems, watching and recording your every move.”
“We are extracting confidential data and passing on your personal information to the Khilafah (ISIS’ alleged caliphate) soldiers, who soon with permission of Allah will strike at your necks in your own land,” continued from the message of the 30-page document.
The remaining pages of the document indeed contained information about employee’s names, personal information, e-mail address as well as passwords, locations and even phone numbers of the 1,351 U.S. military and government officials.
While the threat was posted on a world-wide social site, the intents of this actions is presumed to be a form of communicating with ISIS loyalists not only in America, but other parts of the world as well. This is also considered to be one of the few ways in which ISIS loyalists is able to “exchange” information to each other.
Earlier this year, the U.S. government had announced they killed Hussein in an airstrike in Syira. Hussein was a leading member of the world-known hacking group known as CyberCaliphate. This group in fact carried out mostly nuisance hacks upon the U.S. Military and other U.S. government websites as well as in France and a few other countries.
The Islamic State Hacking Division (ISHD), proclaimed they wanted the “Lone Wolf” attackers to do their biddings. They stated that the lone wolf killers would go into America and kill any of the members on the list, and the attackers where to kill them on sight. “Kill them in their own lands, behead them in their own homes, stab them to death as the walk their streets thinking they are safe” stated ISHD in the 30-page document.
The Department of Defense as well as the FBI has been encouraging their personal to exercise the OPSEC [operations security] in order to prevent measures like this from happening. However, many of the people in which are listed upon the 30-page document are also seen in articles regarding airstrikes on ISIS.
The 20-year old hacker entered the country of Malaysia in August of 2014. His mission was to pursue a degree in computer science as well as computer forensics at a college in Kuala Lumpur.
After receiving information from the FBI, the Malaysian authorities have been monitoring Ferizi for a few brief months prior to the arrest on September 15, 2015 in Kuala Lumpur.
The Malaysian authorities informed the public that Ferizi is to remain under a provisional arrest while the United States authorities obtain the proper documents for the criminals extraction to the United States.
The ISHD has broadcasted their attacks as well as plagiarize the security defense of other websites and departments including an Australian airport website. The ISHD said they have not started the cyber war at this time, however the time of the cyber war is near. This group also stated that the security information is in their hands. As if they are “toying” with us on an emotional level in attempts to scare us into surrendering. Later on, ISHD has stated that we will not have any control over the internet and that we will see how they will control the electronic world.
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