Anonymous hacker group launches cyber war against Islamic State militants

The Anonymous hacker and activist group has decided to launch a cyber war against the Islamic State (IS), also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) or the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), RIA Novosti reported, citing France24 TV channel.

"We plan to attack several countries that were knowingly supporting ISIS financially including Turkey and Saudi Arabia. We warned that if they continued to support ISIS we would be forced to destroy their virtual infrastructure. And yes we have those who can do this," a member of Anonymous told France24 in an interview aired on the Tech24 TV show.

"What we decided to do is instead of attacking them directly we decided to attack their ideologies with truth and logic," the man noted.

"We took this initiative in order to establish two things: one - we needed the public to understand how urgent the situation is in Iraq…the second reason was that we needed to make sure the public knew that ISIS did not represent the Islamic religion," the Anonymous member explained.

"We also made it clear that the United States was not free of blame as it has directly and indirectly contributed to the crisis we see today," the man said.