the year is 2014 in Isis is the largest terrorist organization in the modern world known for their series of devastating attacks they are feared by both people and governments all around the globe through the power of the internet they shared their propaganda and recruited vulnerable individuals from virtually every corner of the planet however at the height of their power a group of hackers named Anonymous made it their mission to combat them and save innocent lives while doing so from deadly explosions to trolling and exposing members of terrorist organizations to foran special task force being born to even working with the FBI and counterterrorist this is the story a for Chance's fight against [Music] terrorism throughout the early 2010s terrorist organizations began to harness the power of the internet wrapping up their recruitment by targeting vulnerable individuals in hopes that could manipulate them to do their bidding they did this by launching campaigns across many social media platforms such as telegram askfm Facebook Instagram and their most successful platform Twitter this website had become the centerpiece of Isis recruitment efforts as they could reach individuals from all around the world and Twitter had difficulty finding and banning all of their accounts on top of this it was much easier for them to hack Twitter accounts giving the illusion that tons of regular people were joining Isis by doing this they were able to trick more individuals than ever before to join their ranks after wild successes in recruiting people from around the globe this became a key component for not only Isis but terrorist organizations everywhere it literally allowed them to passively gather soldiers from all around the world and at the time Isis was gaining members at an alarming rate indoctrinating people from the comfort of their own homes it was clear that Isis was quickly becoming a global organization and only a few began to take notice however Western journalists began to document all the strange Pro Isis accounts that seemed to have sprung up on Twitter after a thorough look they found a whole network of sleeper agents throughout the entire platform a lot of these accounts were spamming Pro Isis religious propaganda across the internet of course they found that most of these accounts belonged to real individuals and were hacked by the Cyber terrorist divisions which further reached every corner of social media sites the story of how a group that we'll refer to here as Isis has been able to raise its profile and bolster its fighting ranks is due in large part to the scope and sophistication of its online media operations Isis appears to have four or possibly more main media Outlets these accounts can attract a few 100 to many thousands of followers to further spread their Twitter posts followers use popular hashtags like hashtag World Cup and USA so their tweets end up on other Twitter feeds that will be potentially seen by millions of people not necessarily looking for Jihadi content while governments worldwide did little to stop the spread of isis's online recruitment people across the globe were falling into their trap and it was clear that someone had to do something to combat it but then the unexpected would happen foran's hacker group Anonymous would lose control of one of their Twitter accounts and an Isis hacker would tweet a pro Isis combat video depicting an assault near Baghdad quickly Anonymous was able to regain control of the account and they were absolutely furious with Isis so they decided to take matters into their own hands and released a video to the public to the citizens of the world we are Anonymous the events currently transpiring in Iraq have made us as a collective re-evaluate our priorities in regards to recent operations the Iraqi people have gone through almost 2 weeks of sheer Terror most of us will never know nor experience we are held by code of honor to protect those who are defenseless both in the cyber world and the real world these Savages who have no religion or morality are bent on burning everything in their path killing and pillaging as they go they must be stopped several days ago their electronic division assumed control of one of our Twitter accounts claiming it for themselves and releasing several graphic photos of their assault near Baghdad these tweets have since been deleted we sincerely apologize to the Twitter followers who had to witness this without warning to the state of Qatar turkey and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia you will not Escape our WRA evidence shows your continued supportting Supply to Isis if this does not promptly stop we will be forced to unleash our entire Legion against your pathetic excuse of cyber security and to the United States another attempt at fueling your military industrial complex for the sake of security and democracy will be grounds for our complete assault against your virtual government infrastructure you have been warned we are Anonymous We Are Legion we do not forgive we do not forget expect us Isis was quite literally everything that Anonymous hated in this world from their extreme ideology to their mass killings of civilians Anonymous knew that they had to do whatever they could to put an end to this madness so they decided to begin their fight where Isis gets their unseen strength their recruitment if Anonymous could put an end to isis's online recruitment then they would lose their hidden Global power and would no longer have their steady flow of volunteer soldiers lurking inside countries around the world # operation Isis would then be born and Anonymous would get to work systematically pursuing these social media accounts to take them down when they found an account that was clearly compromised or had Isis propag Uganda they would then spam report it so that the moderators would see it and take it down Anonymous also compiled a list of accounts for the public so that more people than ever would be combining their forces to spam report all these propaganda accounts on social media because Anonymous has thousands of members from around the globe the brage of reports would quickly result in bans on top of this there were users looking for these accounts Around the Clock as soon as the American anons headed to sleep the Europeans would get to work then later the Russians and even Australians it was literally a global movement I could barely keep up and their army of propaganda accounts was rapidly depleting from Twitter to Instagram to even Facebook anonymous was able to take down hundreds of thousands of these accounts saving countless amounts of lives while doing so even though operation Isis seemed to be going well everything would take a turn for the worst on the 7th of January 2015 the time is 11:30 a.m. in Paris France and two M individual ual armed with automatic rifles would enter a building owned by the French magazine Charlie HDO the gunman opened fire on innocent civilians injuring 11 and killing 12 after the gunman fled the scene a Manhunt was launched to find them it would take nearly 2 days but with the help of anonymous French special forces were able to track them down and after a long firefight they were able to eliminate them successfully however during this time the attack was followed by several others creating mass panic and civil unrest in France after police raided the homes of these attackers they found out that they were terrorist for soldiers recruited by ISIS along with this it discovered that Charlie habau was specifically targeted because some of the cartoons they released mocked Isis religious beliefs even though it was just harmless jokes Isis thought differently and made many people within that organization pay with their lives this created an uproar within France and millions of people along with 40 world leaders would all come together for a vigil and honor of the dead but it wasn't just that it was a movement where people gathered in unity against Isis but these demonstrations not only occurred in France they happened worldwide why because of the attacks Anonymous released another video greetings citizens of the world we are Anonymous operation Isis continues first we need to clarify a few things we are Muslims Christians Jews we are hackers crackers activist Fishers agents spies or just the guy from next door we are students administrators workers clerks unemployed Rich poor We Are Young or old gay or straight we wear smart clothes or rugs we are hedonists athetics Joy riders or activists we come from all Races countries religions and ethnicity United as one divided by zero we are Anonymous remember the terrorists that are calling themselves Islamic State Isis are not Muslims Isis we will hunt you take down your sites accounts emails and expose you do from now on no safe place for you online you will be treated like a virus and we are the Cure we own the internet we are Anonymous We Are Legion we do not forgive we do not forget expect us leaders of anonymous declared war on the violent Islamic extremists and with people around the globe by their side more people than ever were now fully committed to destroying any online presence Isis had so they continued to report and Destroy accounts that had any association with these terrorists and they were making some real progress but some members of anonymous wanted to take things to the next level and they felt like they could do so much more really the problem was that even though governments were good at launching complex attacks across the globe they were virtually useless and managing isis's vast presence in cyberspace one user in particular with the screen name of Sebastian Dante Alexander decided to gather some of anonymous' hackers who are extremely passionate about taking down ISIS and even included some ex-members of the US Military and Former Intelligence agents along with it and media professionals they created a new hagger organization which could also be seen as a subgroup with an anonymous called ghostek this organization had one goal to conduct open cyber warfare against the Islamic State and obliterate any other terrorist group online since GHC had specific goals to accomplish and had a more organized structure than Anonymous they were able to get a lot done in a short period after hacking numerous social media accounts and intercepting intelligence gok was able to track down potential Isis operatives after they found these individuals they would hand them over to the FBI or anti-terrorist organizations who would take care of the rest at one point goek even intercepted a terrorist plot in Tunisia where they were planning a bombing in the humat suat market a crowded area where many locals and tourists visit GOC ended up reporting them to intelligence operatives within the United States and soon after they were able to make 17 arrests which extinguished their plan altogether but this wasn't the only information GOC was able to recover According to some of the communications they intercepted there was to be a massive ISIS attack in New York City on the 4th of July also known known as us independence day which was only a few days after the attack in Tunisia was meant to happen due to the secrecy behind this operation details on what Isis was planning are scares however after receiving the information the FBI apprehended over 10 people ending their plot in New York City for the time being although GOC may have won the fight Isis told their followers to carry out any violence they could on behalf of their group but luckily there was nothing extreme that ended up happening after in both cases Goa communicated to a man named Michael Smith II a counterterrorist analyst who worked with government agencies to destroy violent extremism this had one unforeseen effect it established a real connection between GOC and the legal side of counterterrorism because of this the face of GOC would eventually change into something almost entirely different they were an organization that even without the unlimited resources government agencies had they were still able to do the impossible and save countless amounts of lives in the process and what would happen next would be one of the biggest tragedies that modern history has ever had to endure the usual den of a Paris Friday night was silenced first by gunshots What followed was terrified confusion how many dead and injured isn't clear yet just that there are dead many of them were just a little earlier were people simply out and quickly it all began to point to what appears to be a calculated multi-target assault they whomever they might be reportedly armed with Kalashnikov and possibly grenades and police now confirm included two suicide bombers on the 13th of November 2015 pis experienced its most devastating terror attack in the country's history a group of coordinated militants attacked multiple highdensity areas aiming to create as much destruction as possible these devastating attacks became worldwide news in countries all of the globe grieved with France from President Barack Obama to even Vladimir Putin almost every large country despite their differences came together in solidarity with France citizens would get involved as well holding vigils in every main city around the world it was clear France was at War and many leaders of the world were willing to help put an end to this needless suffering because of all this France along with the United States and Russia would then lead a multi-year bombing campaign in hopes they would destroy the group responsible for this the Paris bombing is not only angered anonymous but they were absolutely Furious and willing to do anything it took to put an end to the radicalized Isis for good so they declared an allout War yesterday Friday November 13th 2015 our country France was attacked in Paris at around 1 p.m. by multiple terrorist attempts claimed by you the Islamic State these attacks cannot remain unpunished hence the reason why the anonymous from all over the world will hunt you down yes you Vermin that are killing innocent people we will track you down as we have been able to do since the attacks of Charlie hebdo therefore be prepared for a massive reaction from Anonymous be advised that we will track you and will not let anything go we are going to launch the biggest operation ever against you expect many cyber attacks know it War has been declared this video would quickly get millions of views and now anonymous had users from around the world backing them up in the war in a single day they managed to take down over 55,000 Twitter accounts and they even leak the personal information of countless terrorist sleeper agents most of these exposed individuals were instantly arrested and taken in for further questioning Anonymous and GOC were slowly but surely eradicating Isis just by using the power of the internet make no mistake # Anonymous is at war with #d we won't stop opposing # Islamic State we are also better hackers # operation Isis these actions deeply angered Isis and in groups they promised a graphic violent end to both Anonymous and GOC however Isis was dealing with some internal problems that they began to sort out some of their soldiers didn't understand basic cyber security practices and were continuously getting hacked which would leak their Intel to these cyber groups because of this the Cyber divisions of Isis train their soldiers and how to prevent getting hacked like not clicking links or trusting anyone with information online this would bolster their cyber defenses which would make it much harder for anyone who wanted to hack them however this wouldn't stop Anonymous and GOC so they kept at it while Anonymous was still focused on taking down social media accounts GOC took things even further they decided that another way they could fight was if they went after one of their most important assets their vast network of cryptocurrency that had been given to them by private donors if they could take their crypto away then it would be nearly impossible to fund everything they were paying for so after some digging around GOC managed to uncover a whole series of cryptocurrency wallets associated with the group and after hacking important targets goac was able to recover millions of dollars of Bitcoin all taken from these militant wall wallets while doing so they even scoured the dark web searching for and promptly shutting down several Bitcoin collecting sites where the Islamic State collected their private donations from anyone around the world they didn't just take down the donation sites though they also went after every site they owned such as recruitment communication and propaganda sites the members of GOC literally did everything in their power to eliminate any digital assets that Isis owned they even ended up trolling them and turned one of their websites into a parity ad for Prozac and Viagra too much Isis enhance your calm too many people are into this Isis stuff please gaze upon this lovely ad so we can upgrade our infrastructure to give you Isis content you all so desperately crave but Isis wouldn't go down easily in their cyber division was working hard to secure their assets by tracking down the members of GOC Anonymous that were attacking them it was absolute digital Warfare by the end of 2015 goek had become a notable group in the war against Terror even though they were respected they they knew that continuing to work as Vigilantes while not operating under the law was risky and if Isis found them they would be in grave danger because of this some of the members decided that they would form a legitimate company that would work with the government organizations more effectively so they founded the ghost security group today they have their own website and while I haven't found much about them an anonymous source tells me they work directly with the Department of Homeland Security in the United States of America however some of the users didn't want to work with the feds so they would stay in GOC refusing to operate legitimately even though the group took a massive hit they would slowly recover some of their lost members leading us to one of the biggest events in this story Anonymous knew that Isis used fear to control the people of the world alongside major organizations and governments unsurprisingly this was actually working extraordinarily well because of this Anonymous decided that on December 11 2015 they would plan coordinated protests across the globe and they would also flood social media with Photoshop pictures and attempt to troll Isis the idea is simple by making Isis angry there's a higher chance that one of them will slip up and they can either take down their social media accounts or report them to the police so Anonymous began spamming Twitter with memes in hopes it would offend members Isis we milk the goats even if they are male Notice Me Alis in pie just doing my part happy # Isis trolling day everybody it's draining trolls for # Dash bags today the memes continue to roll in it was clear some of the members of Isis were beginning to take notice one user was even able to pull the Twitter data and found that over 30,000 people used the troll Isis day hashtag but it didn't just stop there there would also be protests from Europe to America to Asia to even Australia it was literally a global movement against terrorist organizations and at the end of the day almost everyone there just wanted Global Peace although Anonymous was able to catch more members of Isis it wasn't clear how much of an impact this event made on the war throughout the following years Isis was still a major Target but they were beginning to lose steam at this time the legal government of Syria run by Bashar al-assad with the help of their Russian allies and a us-led coalition was mouning a devastating ground campaign against the Islamic state retaking city after City the effort was bolstered by USU on forchan which I talk about in this video regardless the campaign was successful and by 2019 the Islamic caliphate had largely ceased to exist but this wasn't quite the end of isis's influence in January 2021 the GHC leader Sebastian Dante Alexander came to the rest of the group with a series of chat logs through these he was able to locate in Isis Camp as well as reveal their plan to conduct a bomb attack somewhere in Iraq he took it upon himself to inform the relevant authorities although they would do nothing to help but when the day finally came the militants made a mistake and accidentally blew up the bomb before they got to the site Sebastian took to the public and expressed his annoyance for the intelligence agencies he told according to my anonymous source this was the last time they had ever Target an operation against Isis ending fortune cyberware on terrorism for the time being