Monday, July 25, 2016

Islamic State duped by ‘dark web’ mafia site offering murder, mayhem for Bitcoins

From The Washington Times.com (June 29):

The Islamic State terror group is steering followers to a “dark web” mafia site that offers murder and other mayhem for hire at a price of thousands of dollars in Bitcoins, the online currency.

The problem for the world’s most vicious terrorist army is that hackers in recent weeks have exposed the “Besa Mafia” destination as an elaborate fraud. It is likely run not by the real-life Besa Albania Mafia and its criminal networks in Europe and the United States, but by a guy living in Romania.

This means the Islamic State, also known as ISIL and ISIS, is sending its followers on a money-wasting venture that is not likely to get anybody killed.

The Islamic State’s endorsement of the Besa Mafia site was discovered by the Middle East Media Research Institute. MEMRI, which monitors jihadi traffic, found Islamic State’s June 14 message on the channel Cyber Kahilafah, which is carried on the encrypted messaging app Telegram.

Telegram is its own story. Invented by an exiled Russian technocrat as a way for dissidents to escape the wrath of Vladimir Putin, Telegram has become the go-to platform for jihadis’ planning and commanding terrorist attacks, according to its detractors. [read more]
Serves the stupid camel-humping thugs right. Morons.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

"Really interesting! I've heard of the dark net but thought that only really savvy computer people could access it. Thank you so much for the information. I'm going to have a look, even though I don't think I will be able to find the interesting stuff like subversive political writing from people in repressed countries. I'll have fun looking though!
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