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Al Qaeda forum back online
After being knocked offline for two weeks in an apparent cyberattack, one al Qaeada online forum was back up and running Wednesday.
The Shumkah al-Islam forum, one of two main al Qaeda sites, was back online, but another five sites associated with the terror group remain offline, according to The Washington Post.
The Shumkah site went live again Wednesday with a message that the cyberattack was “a failed, miserable campaign,” according to a translation of the message by security consultant Flashpoint Partners.
“The enemies of Allah who boast of their freedoms have not spared any effort to eradicate our blessed media,” the forum said. “Even if it succeeded in stopping the forum, it didn't succeed in achieving its desired aims and goals.”
The outages appear to be the result of a cyberattack on al Qaeda, although the attack was conducted at a low level of sophistication that all but rules out the United States as a potential culprit.
