Jihad

Pierluigi Paganini December 02, 2016
The Immaterial Khilafah – Global Intelligence Insight Report

As the coalition forces started to enter the Iraqi city of Mosul, many have seen Al-Baghdadi’s speech as desperate plea, exhorting his fighters to stand and fight for the Caliphate until their dying breath while he was cowardly running away from the fray. “Turn the disbelievers’ night into day, bring destruction to their homes, make […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 24, 2016
Terrorism activity continues unabated – Tower of Babel under the surface

This increase of the activity led Intel experts at Global Intelligence Insight to raise the level of terrorism threat in Italy to #1. With the eyes of the world set on the American Presidential elections on one side, and on Aleppo, Mosul and most recently Kirkuk on the other, underneath the online surface of the […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 16, 2016
The unmanned jihad in the sky

UAV – “Go ahead, look up [points to the sky] 
 see the drone? No? It’s alright, because the drone sees you. Sees your face. We know who you are.” The scene is from the movie “13 hours – The secret story of the soldiers of Benghazi”: as the member of Ansar al-Sharia looks up, […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 24, 2015
Notorious Shm00p hacker Claims he helped the FBI find ISIS Hacker Junaid Hussain

The hacker Shm00p claims he served as an FBI informant and helped the US law enforcement track down the hacker turned ISIS fighter Junaid Hussain. When dealing with ISIS and cyber capabilities, the first name that experts cite is Junaid Hussain, the hacker that was killed in a targeted US drone strike in August this year.Now new details on Junaid Hussain […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 18, 2015
Discovered instances of the ISIS Help Desk that support terrorists worldwide

The IS is running service to assist jihadists to use encrypted communications and much more. NBCreports defined the service a 24-hour ISIS Help Desk. The propaganda machine of the ISIS is very efficient, everytime that intelligence and activism, try to block it, it rapidly changes become even more effective. After the Paris attacks, we discussed […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 10, 2015
Belgian authorities detained terrorists by intercepting WhatsApp messages

Belgian law enforcement exploited end-to-end encryption gaps in WhatsApp to intercept messages exchanged between members of a Chechen jihadist group. According to a report published by Bloomberg, two men were arrested and warrants were issued for other three suspects that were allegedly preparing a terrorist attack in Belgium. The interesting part of the news is that law […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 22, 2015
The ISIS advances in the DeepWeb among Bitcoin and darknets

While members of the ISIS are continuing to explore the Deep Web for various activities, the US Intelligence plans activities to track them. The Dark Web is a privileged environment for cyber criminals and state-sponsored hackers due to the anonymity offered by its services. Unfortunately, another category of threat actors is exploiting the deep web, the terrorists, for […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 14, 2014
ISIS is ramping up efforts to mount a massive cyber attack

Extremists groups of ISIS and Al Qaeda are ramping up efforts to launch major cyber attacks on Western Critical Infrastructure to set up digital Caliphate. In time I’m writing the ISIS has released a new video purporting to show the beheading of British hostage David Haines, the group has started again to flood the social media […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 20, 2012
New attacks against banking, cyber Jihad or cyber warfare acts?

Last week the hacker group known as “Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters” announced a series of attacks against principal banking and financial institutions publishing a message on Pastebin profile. The principal targets include organizations such as U.S. Bancorp, JPMorgan Chase&co, Bank of America, PNC Financial Fervices Group, and SunTrust Banks. In the period between the […]