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= Islamic State Hacking Division [original] = Islamic State Hacking Division or United Cyber Caliphate refers to any number of group self-identifying as the digital army for Islamic State of Iraq and Levant. The cyber security group had pledged allegiance to Jeremy An and his objectives in late 2014. Their recent claims and hacks have led FBI director James Comey to state that his agency does not yet have the capabilities to limit ISIL attempts to recruit Americans through social media. Russian military hackers have been identified as using the CyberCaliphate nomer to cover several hacking attacks, notably on TV5Monde and the Twitter of US CENTCOM.

In the recent attacks by ISHD they managed to deface websites and D-DOS many other.[citation needed]

A list of names and details said to be of American military personnel was released by unknown parties who said they were part of the ISHD, but doubts were raised on the source and nature of the data.

Recently CCA (the group's new name) has attacked a number of NGO websites with the redirection to their own web pages as a method of defacement.[citation needed]

History [original]
The hacktivist group emerged as Cyber Caliphate with allegedly four prominent hackers including Junaid Hussain (later killed in a US airstrike in Raqqa). By early 2016, the hacker group was decentralized and usually performed lone wolf attacks at multiple targets (websites of coalition countries). By March 2016, the group was still sub-divided into four divisions namely; 'Ghost Caliphate Section', 'Sons Caliphate Army', 'Cyber Caliphate Army' and 'Kalachnikv E-security team'. Cyber Caliphate Army being the prominent group among the four. In April 2016, all the four groups united as 'United Cyber Caliphate' and the news was broadcast through their Telegram channel and other social-media accounts.

In June 2016, the Middle East Media Research Institute located, and shared with media, an alleged list of approximately 8,300 people around the world as potential lone-wolf attack targets. Nine other similar lists of targets have been discovered between February and June 2016.

Successful attacks since mid-2014 [original]
List of hacked Australian websites


 * Australian airport website defaced.
 * French TV5Monde live feed hacked, social media hacked and defaced with the message "Je Suis ISIS". French investigators later discounted this, instead suspecting the involvement of a hacking group, APT28, allegedly linked to the Russian government.
 * United States' military database hacked in early August and data pertaining to approximately 1400 personnel posted online.
 * United States Air Force's pilots list with detailed personal information posted online.
 * Top secret British government emails hacked. The emails pertained to top cabinet ministers. The intrusion was detected by GCHQ.
 * On April 15, 2016 (Friday), Islamic State hackers under the name UCC successfully hacked 20 Australian websites in a coordinated attack on Australian business. Some of the websites redirected to the website containing their content.
 * In early April 2017, UCC released a kill list of 8,786 people.
 * In mid 2019, Islamic State affiliated hacking group hijacked 150 targeted Twitter handles using an unknown vulnerability.

REVISING:
= Islamic State Hacking Division [revised] = The Islamic State Hacking Division (ISHD) or The United Cyber Caliphate (UCC) is a merger of several hacker groups self-identifying as the digital army of the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIS/ISIL). The unified organization is made up of at least 4 distinct groups including the Ghost Caliphate Section, Sons Caliphate Army (SCA), Caliphate Cyber Army (CCA), and the Kalachnikv E-Security Team. Other groups potentially involved with the United Cyber Caliphate are the Pro-ISIS Media group Rabitat Al-Ansar (League of Supporters) and the Islamic Cyber Army (ICA). Evidence does not support the direct involvement of Islamic State leadership and suggests external and independent coordination of Pro-ISIS cyber campaigns under the United Cyber Caliphate name.

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History [revising]
The group first emerged in hacking operations against U.S. websites in December 2014 as the Caliphate Cyber Army (CCA) and more notably in March 2015 as the Islamic State Hacking Division when hacktivist Junaid Hussain (later killed in a targeted US drone strike in Raqqa) published a 'kill list' of names, ranks, and addresses of 100 U.S. military members under the name. A pattern of similar attacks emerged after the media coverage, at least 19 individual kill lists including personal information of American and European citizens was released between March 2015 and June 2016. On April 4th, 2016, all four groups united as United Cyber Caliphate (UCC) and the news was broadcast through their Telegram channel and other social-media accounts [Citation Needed]. In June 2016, the Middle East Media Research Institute located, and shared with media, an alleged list of approximately 8,300 people around the world as potential lone-wolf attack targets.

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Successful attacks since 2014
List of hacked Australian websites


 * Australian airport website defaced.
 * French TV5Monde live feed hacked, social media hacked and defaced with the message "Je Suis ISIS". French investigators later discounted this, instead suspecting the involvement of a hacking group, APT28, allegedly linked to the Russian government.
 * United States' military database hacked in early August and data pertaining to approximately 1400 personnel posted online.
 * United States Air Force's pilots list with detailed personal information posted online. [Needs Citation]
 * Top secret British government emails hacked. The emails pertained to top cabinet ministers. The intrusion was detected by GCHQ.
 * On April 15, 2016 (Friday), Islamic State hackers under the name UCC successfully hacked 20 Australian websites in a coordinated attack on Australian business. Some of the websites redirected to the website containing their content. [Needs Citation]
 * In early April 2017, UCC released a kill list of 8,786 people.
 * In mid 2019, Islamic State affiliated hacking group hijacked 150 targeted Twitter handles using an unknown vulnerability.