UICF the children of ISIS: Interpol in cooperation with Group-IB, a security firm from Moscow, identified and revealed the true identities of five members of the Federal Islamic Government Force, or United Islamic Cyber Force (UICF).
UICF is a loosely managed hacker team that specializes in website falsification and DDoS attacks when politically charged issues happen. Typically the team is in favor of ISIS.
The team has been active since January of 2014 and managed to acquire over 40 members during its presence on the Internet.
The most popular UICF hacks are the counterfeiting of TV5Monde, Bloc Québécois and Notepad ++ in January of 2015, after his attacks Charlie Hebdo.
UICF hackers took control of the websites and published messages υπέρ του ISIS για την υποστήριξη των τρομοκρατών του Charlie Hebdo.
Of these defacement, along with other hacking data, Group-IB researchers managed to create profiles for UICF hackers.
In five cases, researchers were able to link these profiles to their real identities. All five UICF hackers are young men who just finished school.
According to this Group-IB, the five hackers are: Chakra Bernaty (AnoaGhost) from Indonesia. Guntur R. (Gunz_Berry) from Indonesia, Habiblahi Adeleke B. (W3bh4x0r) from Nigeria. Lakhar B., (Lakhdar DZ) 21 years from Sidi Bel Abbes in Algeria and Zishan Rider from Delhi, India.
Each of these five hackers is part of many hacking teams, not just UICF. But all five are low-skilled.
The Group-IB report includes censored photos of hackers, links to social media profiles, and how the researchers discovered each of them.
The most interesting case is that of AnoaGhost, in which researchers are reported to have discovered it because of a photo uploaded online. The image showed the hacker dressed in his school uniform, with his real name.
