Secret WWW and Cyber Jihadists

The Dark Web and Cyber Jihad

It's interesting to monitor the use and abuse of the buzz word "Dark Web". This press release for instance, tries to imply that the crawlers are actually crawling the Dark Web and analyzing cyber jihadist activities, a bit of an awkward statement given what the Dark Web is at the bottom line - a web that is closed for web crawlers either thought standard measures, or authentication :

"This is where the Dark Web project comes in. Using advanced techniques such as Web spidering, link analysis, content analysis, authorship analysis, sentiment analysis and multimedia analysis, Chen and his team can find, catalogue and analyze extremist activities online. According to Chen, scenarios involving vast amounts of information and data points are ideal challenges for computational scientists, who use the power of advanced computers and applications to find patterns and connections where humans can not. One of the tools developed by Dark Web is a technique called Writeprint, which automatically extracts thousands of multilingual, structural, and semantic features to determine who is creating 'anonymous' content online. Writeprint can look at a posting on an online bulletin board, for example, and compare it with writings found elsewhere on the Internet. By analyzing these certain features, it can determine with more than 95 percent accuracy if the author has produced other content in the past. The system can then alert analysts when the same author produces new content, as well as where on the Internet the content is being copied, linked to or discussed."

I've blogged about this AI project over an year ago, and have been following it ever since while experimenting with link and multimedia analysis of cyber jihadist communities before they were shut down. And while the innovations they've introduced for this period are impressive in terms of drawing social networking maps, the Dark Web's very principle, namely that it's authentication only Web, meaning it's closed for spiders, even human based researchers thought basic invite only or password authentication methods will prompt researchers to adapt in the long-term. Many of the cyber jihadist forums I didn't include in my last external links extraction were great examples of the dark cyber jihadist web, knowing where you crawl doesn't mean there'll be anything publicly available to crawl, and the trend is just starting to emerge. Such VIP clubs represent closed communities where more efforts should be put in taking a peek, thus it's ruining previous efficiency centered approaches of analyzing cyber jihadist communities. The alternatives remain rather contradictive but fully realistic - infecting terrorist suspects with malware, embedding malware within cyber jihadist communities, or unethically pen-testing the cyber jihadist communities to have the AI analyze the data obtained from the closed community, thus the Dark Web, at a later stage.

Meanwhile, after having the Global Islamic Media Front's online presence limited to the minimum, GIMF is making it in the mainstream media :

"On sites easily traceable via search engines, the German-language arm of the "Global Islamic Media Front" (GIMF) appeals for volunteer translators, inviting them to reply to a Hotmail address, and posts links to dozens of al Qaeda videos. "After some brothers and sisters were arrested (may Allah free them) and the Forum and blog of the GIMF were removed, we say this: the GIMF still exists and will continue its work," a statement from the front says. "To the Kuffar (infidels) who try to fight us, we say: you can do what you like, make as many arrests as you like...you will not reach your goal. We will always keep going until we achieve victory or martyrdom."The re-emergence of the GIMF in German highlights the difficulty for authorities of shutting down radical Islamist Web sites, which often simply spring up at new addresses."

Easily traceable mainly because they're not behind the Dark Web, at least not for now. Currently active GIMF URLs :

gimf.12gbfree.com
gimf.22web.net
gimf.cjb.net
gimfupload.blogspot.com with two redirectors gimfupload.notlong.com ; gimfupload.2ya.com

Despite that there're still literally hundreds of cyber jihadist forums and sites, quantity is not always equal to quality, namely, only a few of these will achieve success and mature into potentially dangerous communities. In the long term, however, once the "tip of the iceberg" communities dissapear, efficiency from the cyber jihadists will get sacrificed for improved OPSEC, namely they'll start operating behind the true Dark Web, making them more difficult and time-consuming to assess, track down, and shut down.

UPDATE: Inshallahshaheed (GIMF) has a new home.

Source Dancho Danchev

Other points:

the more secret they become the more they limit recruiting,

Forcing them into a few big groups/sites makes it easier to track.

The more smaller sites, the more fragmented.

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al Qaeda forced to adjust

Many of the jahidist/terrorist web sites are down,

The little group of wanabe hackers from
http://www.al-jinan.org/

Have a new site, and have dropped the old "silver dos" attack program, had some problems with it.
Using new off the shelf kiddy scripts.

GIMF is reorganizing, new field divisions, new URL.

And the Hackers ( white hats in India ) continue to help the terrorists wanabee hackers.

The Indi experts have said on Indian forums, " its like teaching chess to monkeys."

AQ continues to Slip.........

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GIMF reorginizing, world wide, using encryption.

Global Jihad:
From a password protected file downloaded from password protected Jihad forum.
They are training in the use of PGP.

Technology offers the possibility of PGP encryption and digital signing letters has proved this program steadfastness in the face of all attempts to breakage, and clarifies that the accounts could not break the encryption of PGP by anyone in the world within an acceptable time, and is therefore considered a military secret, and prevent the United States government export programs to PGP our country, but can be obtained from other sources.

...........encrypted message to be sent by mail to the front, on the grounds that the message will reach the World Islamic Front briefing.

Thank God for the blessing of Islam and its credit and magnanimity and generosity and charity, prayer and peace be upon our master and our leader Mohammed Fara fortunate personalities on the computer and the company of esteemed and after :

.....as you see today is disseminating news and information via the Internet forms and methods of making easy we must strive to form unified Islamic Front media on a global scale with a coordinating body, in fact, for this front there, but not sick and weak and fragmented and unacceptable, as well as uncoordinated and salary, the master Praise youth of Islam are exerting tremendous efforts in the dissemination of news and every nation has a policy and style The point of view in the way publishing in the way news and information formulation, and to Annker that young inexperienced foundations media and lack of support and guidance from the media people, and we had many reservations on some routes in publishing and broadcasting information, we do not pretend that we are media people, but we strive to serve Islam and Muslims all our God is used, for this must move these days and begin coordination and communication between cells or strong media scattered here and there As you know, the Internet is full of forums and media groups Arab and Islamic Can these entities electronic information coordination among them? Can she resorts to experts of the Islamic Information provided and consulted them and learning from them this profession that we need them most? We emphasize in this article that there are experts in the media are ready to provide support and assistance to young sons and daughters of the nation and Trshidhem to teach them how to disseminate news and information and how to describe the latest events and facts that occur daily in various countries such Arab and Islamic countries, especially in Iraq and Palestine, Chechnya, Afghanistan, Kashmir and other states of the nation. May stand against us and some people say How is coordination among the various currents Some alleged predecessor struggler, and Wahhabi and brothers and other trends? Ferdena is, we classify against Muslims, these classifications which we live today is the fruits of sedition faced by the nation. We must Trenching in the same trench and, more importantly, to agree in assets, foundations and Islamic principles and to leave aside differences subsidiary, and the talk about reclassification affects Muslims and there is no room for such a narrative, just want to say that any Muslim could zealous religion and the nation's conscience, and regardless considering the direction or letters to participate in the march to support Islamic media on the Internet ............


tips :
......the so-called State of Israel is the entity mutation in the body of the nation must eradicate all possible means.

.....do not forget the importance of translation into languages other living Kalangelesais, French and Spanish composition of teams for translation and publication in the sites of these languages considered one of the priorities of the march of global Islamic media front.

1-formation of a subsidiary company from the front so that each company has a role or roles example for the transfer of confidential data and news reports Mujahideen and confidential matters specializing in advocacy and confidential matters scientific, research and different studies and the confidentiality of things economic and other types of buildings.

2-Sahab Institution Everybody knows, we propose the establishment of a media organization like Sahab (we suggest the establishment of an organization under the name Nour Foundation for the right production information), where lies role in the production of video programs on CD shows VIDEO state of the nation in various countries, especially in hot spots such as Iraq and Afghanistan. Palestine and Kashmir and other so these discs distributed to people in different ways the Internet, as we believe that this method will be effective and fruitful God's help at a high level.

3-We urge cooperation with the people of experience in the media, they were a beacon through the media genuine Muslim.

4-communicate with the Jihadi leaders, the media, economic, scientific and other.

5-on the leadership front this leave you, but remind you that people do not forget the experience and opinion of the mujahideen, scientists and experts in various areas of information.

( The jihadist IT consultants are in India, India's computer experts are assisting in this effort. )

Gerald

everybody knew this, here is proof, GIMF SPOOF

Stolen from Dr. Rusty "John Doe" Shackleford at Mypetjawa.

GIMF al qaeda's media arm has been doing creative cuts and edits, to turn black into white.
Here is an example.

Insurgent view:


What happened:

AH-64 footage showing 34 Iranian-made rockets and 46 rocket launchers arrayed against FOB Hammer. They were disarmed before the enemy could use them. Includes Pilots' audio.

FYI--The 34 Iranian made missiles that are set up by the insurgents in the beginning of their video are never fired. Our guys dismantled them long before that, and the insurgents were captured. How do you think we got their video?

Anyone else got any GIMF VIDEOS VS USA VIDEOS ( SAME INCIDENT ), PLEASE CONTACT ME.

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