14 DAY TRIAL // Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters have announced the start of week 2 of the third phase of Operation Ababil, the campaign they’ve initiated hoping they can get the US government to order the takedown of the Innocence of Muslims movie from YouTube.
Since, so far, only the main copy of the controversial film has been removed, the hackers continue to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks against the public websites of financial institutions from the United States.
According to their latest statement, last week they attacked the websites of PNC, Capital One, BB&T, Citibank, Bank of America, US Bank, Union Bank, Chase, and Fifth Third.
al-Qassam Cyber Fighters have not revealed the names of this week’s attacks, so it remains to be seen what sites they will target.
It’s worth noting that, according to their latest calculations, unless the remaining instances of the film are removed, the attacks will continue for another 7 months.