...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
jihadist group, NBC News reported on Monday.
Websites including a racecar speedway in the state of Ohio, a Goodwill center in Missouri and a church in Canada were defaced with the radical group's black flag, the news organization reported.
Attacks against similar low-profile websites were also recorded in Montana, New York, Massachusetts and Minnesota.
The FBI said it was aware of the incidents and "is contacting the impacted parties." A security analyst told NBC it was unlikely the hacks had any "real connection" to the Islamic State group.
The IS-themed hacks were on Sunday reported in Ireland, where the Dublin Rape Crisis Center in Ireland's website was defaced.
"Hacked by Islamic State (ISIS) We Are Everywhere," the hacked website said while playing music associated with the group.
IS has relied on an aggressive propaganda campaign online to appeal to possible recruits to join and support the violent Islamists in Iraq and Syria.
| The Cincinnati Enquirer reported on local companies that were hacked: |
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
Saturday.
The website for Eldora Speedway in Darke County and two business sites in St. Louis were also compromised, according the the Darke County Sheriff's Office.
By 4:25 p.m., Eldora Speedway had restored their website with the help of the FBI, the Darke County Sheriff's Office and GoDaddy, according to their site.
"We received a call from the track manager this afternoon and he said that some kind of ISIS logo was on their home website," said Sgt. Tony Royer of the Darke County Sheriff's Office. "So they went ahead and contacted their IT personnel and had GoDaddy look into the incident.
"Based on their findings, the speedway was not a specific target of the attack. It sounds like this was done by accident."
A certain type of plugin was used on the site and once this was utilized it opened up the message and musical recording that allegedly came from the Islamic State, IT officials from the Eldora Speedway told the Darke County Sheriff's Office.
"The virus appeared to be dormant until this plugin was unzipped," Royer said.
The websites for the Cincinnati restaurants had a black banner on the top of the pages around 2 p.m. Saturday that read "Hacked by Islamic State."
The bottom of the banner read, "We are everywhere" with a winky-face emoticon.
The logo, written in Arabic, read "There is no God, but God."
A song in Arabic played in the background, although it was not clear what it said.
"The FBI is aware of these reported incidents and is contacting the impacted parties," a spokesperson from the FBI said Saturday afternoon.
The Montgomery Inn's website was taken down around 2:15 p.m. Saturday afternoon, but was restored around 4:40 p.m. When asked why the page was down, a general manager told The Enquirer there was a problem with the website. He did not have a further comment.
A spokesperson for the Moerlein Lager House said they were aware of the situation around 3 p.m. and were taking the website down. She said the restaurant had been in contact with the Cyber Crimes Unit of the Cincinnati Police Department.
Two companies in St. Louis - MERS Goodwill and a digital agency named Elasticity also had their websites hacked Friday morning by a group claiming to be the Islamic State. Their websites were up and running late Friday evening.