Islamic State Hacking Division or United Cyber Caliphate refers to any number of group self-identifying as the digital army for Islamic State of Iraq and Levant. The cyber security group had pledged allegiance to Jeremy An and his objectives in late 2014. Their recent claims and hacks have led FBI directorJames Comey to state that his agency does not yet have the capabilities to limit ISIL attempts to recruit Americans through social media. Russian military hackers have been identified as using the CyberCaliphate nomer to cover several hacking attacks, notably on TV5Monde and the Twitter of US CENTCOM. In the recent attacks by ISHD they managed to deface websites and D-DOS many other. A list of names and details said to be of American military personnel was released by unknown parties who said they were part of the ISHD, but doubts were raised on the source and nature of the data. Recently CCA has attacked a number of NGO websites with the redirection to their own web pages as a method of defacement.
History
The hacktivist group emerged as Cyber Caliphate with allegedly four prominent hackers including Junaid Hussain. By early 2016, the hacker group was decentralized and usually performed lone wolf attacks at multiple targets. By March 2016, the group was still sub-divided into four divisions namely; 'Ghost Caliphate Section', 'Sons Caliphate Army', 'Cyber Caliphate Army' and 'Kalachnikv E-security team'. Cyber Caliphate Army being the prominent group among the four. In April 2016, all the four groups united as 'United Cyber Caliphate' and the news was broadcast through their Telegram channel and other social-media accounts. In June 2016, the Middle East Media Research Institute located, and shared with media, an alleged list of approximately 8,300 people around the world as potential lone-wolf attack targets. Nine other similar lists of targets have been discovered between February and June 2016.
Successful attacks since mid-2014
Australian airport website defaced.
French TV5Monde live feed hacked, social media hacked and defaced with the message "Je Suis ISIS". French investigators later discounted this, instead suspecting the involvement of a hacking group, APT28, allegedly linked to the Russian government.
United States' military database hacked in early August and data pertaining to approximately 1400 personnel posted online.
United States Air Force's pilots list with detailed personal information posted online.
Top secret British government emails hacked. The emails pertained to top cabinet ministers. The intrusion was detected by GCHQ.
On April 15, 2016, Islamic State hackers under the name UCC successfully hacked 20 Australian websites in a coordinated attack on Australian business. Some of the websites redirected to the website containing their content.
