14 DAY TRIAL // As they’ve promised, Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters have initiated phase 3 of Operation Ababil, the campaign whose goal is to get US authorities to order the removal of the controversial Innocence of Muslims movie from YouTube.
Several US financial institutions have already been targeted, including Bank of America, Capital One, Wells Fargo, Citibank, PNC and Fifth Third Bank.
In their latest statement, the hacktivists threatened to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks against the websites of banks on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, during work hours.
“Those who are our announcements' main addressing party, should know that we Muslims youth who are running this job won't be entrapped by their propaganda and only when the insulting movies are removed from the Internet we will stop this work,” the hackers stated.
“Those who create fake assumptions about us using their weak analysis also show that they are completely unfamiliar with this cyber environment.”