The chilling threat saw United Cyber Caliphate release the names of more than 8,000 people the terrorist group wants dead around the globe. According to the news site, 1,445 people included on the list have California address, while 643 were listed as having Florida addresses.
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The list – written in both English and Arabic – was uncovered by the media group Vocativ which specialises in investigating the hidden side of the web. The list also included 341 people with Washington addresses, 333 with Texas addresses, 331 with IL addresses and 290 with NY addresses. Another 312 names and addresses allegedly belong to people in Canada, while 69 allegedly belong to people in Australia.
The group on Monday shared a list of 8,318 individuals from around the world, including their addresses and email contact details, on a secretive messaging app service called Telegram. Names on the list range from local law enforcement officers to members of the State Department. The rest are addresses in the UK, Belgium, Brazil, China, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, New Zealand, South Korea, Sweden and Trinidad and Tobago.
The ISIS-aligned United Cyber Caliphate has distributed a new “kill list” which contains the names of 7,858 Americans.
It is unclear why the names were selected and whether the list includes specific data that can not be found online.
New “kill lists” from loyalists of the Islamic State have a wide swath of Americans in their crosshairs, according to a report from Vocativ on Wednesday.
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According to the Daily Mail, Telegram is still frequently used by jihadis to recruit and spread pro-IS propaganda even after the app shut down as many as 78 IS-related accounts following last year’s terror attacks in Paris.
