14 DAY TRIAL // Over the past few days, several of Al-Qaida’s online communication channels have been disrupted by distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks.
Evan Kohlmann, a US terrorism consultant who has worked for the FBI and other government agencies, has been monitoring the attacks.
“Several of Al-Qaida's top-tier web forums appear to have been targeted by intermittent, debilitating DDOS attacks over the past 3 days,” Kohlmann, who is a senior partner at cyberspace consulting and data services provider Flashpoint Partners, said on Saturday.
“It is unclear whether the apparent DDOS attacks on the Al-Qaida forums are the work of independent cybervigilantes or a government agency,” he added.
The impacted forums are Shamukh, Fidaa, and AMAF.
According to a tweet posted by the expert a few hours ago, the attacks are still going strong.
In the meantime, users on Twitter have been trolling Al-Qaida by abusing a hashtag utilized by the organization’s supporters.