Hackers post IS threat on US governor’s site
HACKERS have infiltrated a US governer’s website with a pro-Islamic State message threatening Donald Trump.
The message said the hack was by Team System DZ, which has claimed responsibility for past cyberattacks in the UK, including ones on the NHS and a Yorkshire rugby league club.
“You will be held accountable Trump, you and all your people for every drop of blood flowing in Muslim countries,” it read, adding: “I love Islamic state.” It was posted on the website for Ohio’s Republican Governor John Kasich, who was beaten by Mr Trump in the party’s presidential primaries.
Several other sites were hacked in Ohio, including the website of first lady Karen Kasich, Medicaid, Ohio’s department of rehabilitation and correction, and the Casino Control Commission. Other targeted sites included those for the town of Brookhaven in New York state and Howard county, Maryland.
Tom Hoyt, chief communications officer for Ohio’s department of administrative services, said: “All affected servers have been taken offline. We are investigating how these hackers were able to deface these websites. We also are working with law enforcement.”
Ohio treasurer Josh Mandel tweeted: “Wake up freedom-loving Americans. Radical Islam infiltrating the heartland.” Website Cryptosphere, which tracks hackers worldwide, has detailed hundreds of attacks by Team System DZ, which they called a “pro-Isis hacker crew” based in Algeria.
This year it posted images of the Syrian war on NHS websites and took over Aberdeen city council’s site. In 2014 it targeted Rugby League team Keighley Cougars, and earlier that year allegedly hacked 200 sites around the world, posting anti-Israeli messages.