(VOVworld) – More than 1,000 French websites have been targeted by self-described Islamist hackers in the week since the attack by jihadists on the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo left 12 people dead, Internet security experts said on Thursday.
Charlie Hebdo Magazine (Photo: AFP)
Most of the hacks targeted relatively small sites operated by local governments, universities, churches, and businesses. Experts said that “cyber-jihadist” hackers from North Africa and Mauritania have claimed responsibility for the hijacking of over 1,000 sites since the January 7 Charlie Hebdo attack, and have threatened a surge of activity on January 15.
In another development, four bookshops in Brussels have received letters warning of reprisals if they distribute the controversial first issue of French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo since last week`s attacks, Belgian authorities said. Belgian prosecutors said they were taking the letters sent to the bookshops late on Tuesday “very seriously” and were analysing video footage and making other inquiries to find whoever wrote them.
A Turkish court on Wednesday ordered a block on websites featuring the controversial Charlie Hebdo cover as anger grew in the Islamic world over the edition. The court in the southeastern Turkish city of Diyarbakir, responding to a petition, ordered the block on all websites displaying the cover. The government in mainly Muslim Senegal also banned distribution of the latest editions of Charlie Hebdo and the French daily Liberation.
The German anti-Islam movement PEGIDA (Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamification of the West) expanded to Spain following the attacks in France last week that killed dozens of people. PEGIDA said it will hold demonstrations but the time has not been announced.
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