[ April 19, 2024 ]
Ardit Ferizi, a Kosovo citizen arrested in Malaysia, was working with other Kosovo jihadis to hack and pass the personal information of the US soldiers to the Islamic State “soldiers of the khilafah, who soon with the permission of Allah will strike at your necks in your own lands!”
Ferizi is the leader of a hacking group known as Kosova Hacker’s Security.
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NATO fought for these Muslims in the Kosovo war paving the way for what will be a jihad terror state in the heart of Europe. Brilliant.
Hacker allegedly gave ISIS a ‘kill list’ of U.S. troops,” CNN, October 16, 2015
CNN’s Brian Todd reports on the arrest of an ISIS hacker who reportedly stole U.S. military members’ personal information.
Authorities have arrested a Malaysia-based hacker who they accuse of stealing personal information of U.S. military members and giving it to ISIS.Ardit Ferizi, a Kosovo citizen, was detained in Malaysia on a provisional U.S. arrest warrant alleging he provided material support to ISIS and committed computer hacking and identity theft, the U.S. Justice Department said.
According to a criminal complaint, Ferizi hacked into the computer system of a company in the United States and stole personally identifiable information of more than 1,000 U.S. service members and federal employees. Then, he allegedly gave that information to several ISIS figures, including a prominent propagandist for the group, the complaint says.
U.S. Assistant Attorney General John Carlin called the case against Ferizi — which combines cybercrime and terror charges as U.S. authorities aim to step up their crackdown on ISIS — “a first of its kind.”
“This arrest demonstrates our resolve to confront and disrupt ISIL’s efforts to target Americans, in whatever form and wherever they occur,” Carlin said in a statement. ISIL is another name for the Islamic extremist group ISIS.
Ties to prominent ISIS propagandist
The criminal complaint alleges there’s probable cause to believe Ferizi hacked into a server and stole names and personally identifiable information of more than 1,300 U.S. military and other government personnel — a list that was later posted online in August by a group calling itself the “Islamic State Hacking Division.”
“We are extracting confidential data,” a message from the group said, according to the complaint, “and passing on your personal information to the soldiers of the khilafah, who soon with the permission of Allah will strike at your necks in your own lands!”
The military members’ data, including home addresses and photos, was allegedly stolen by Ferizi and passed on to Junaid Hussein, a British hacker who was active on social media recruiting Westerners to join ISIS, authorities said.
The U.S. military announced in August that it had killed Hussein in an airstrike in Syria. He was a leading member of ISIS’ so-called CyberCaliphate, which has carried out mostly nuisance hacks on military and other government websites in the United States, France and other countries.
After the list’s publication in August, Pentagon officials said they were investigating.
“I take it seriously, because it is clear what they are trying to do,” Gen. Raymond Odierno, the U.S. Army chief of ctaff, said at the time.
Many of the phone numbers and email addresses on the list were not in service when tested by CNN in August. But one person on the list, reached by phone, confirmed he had previously served in the U.S. military. He asked not to be named, but said he had recently been notified by the Pentagon that his name and personal information were on the list. Another, reached by email, confirmed she was a government employee who had been warned by the military about being on the list.
Relative: Family is ‘shocked’ by charges
According to the complaint, Ferizi is believed to be the leader of a hacking group known as Kosova Hacker’s Security.
A relative of Ferizi provided CNN with a recent narrative of Ferizi’s life and added that the family was “truly surprisingly shocked” to hear of the accusations tying Ferizi to ISIS.
The family is very skeptical of the charges, and the news has been very painful for the family, especially Ferizi’s mother, the relative said.
The family member went on to tell CNN that Ferizi’s relatives have no ties to ISIS or any criminal organization, and that they “love the USA for what they did in Kosovo, helping my family and my people.”
When Ferizi was age 15, he ran into some problems with the police for allegedly hacking a “news portal,” the relative said.
But the family wasn’t aware “of his title ‘hacker,’ but we knew that he had good skills in computer science and that’s why (a family member) invested in him to cultivate his talents even more,” the relative said.
Why Kosovo students go to Malaysia
Ferizi moved to Malaysia to study computer science because of its schools and their expertise. It’s not easy for Kosovo students to get into schools in the European Union or the United States, the family member said.
Other students from Ferizi’s hometown in Kosovo also attended the same technical school as Ferizi did, the relative added.
Malaysian police said the 20-year-old alleged hacker had entered the country in August 2014 to study computer science and computer forensics at a college in Kuala Lumpur.
Ferizi was arrested while on his way home to Kosovo from Malaysia on September 15, the relative said. The family paid for his ticket to come home because, the relative claimed, Ferizi has mental health issues and he complained to his family that they were worsening so he dropped out of university to return home.
“We were waiting for his return, then suddenly this happened,” the family member said.
The family spoke to Ferizi twice while he was in custody with the help of a Malaysian human rights group called Suaram. Both times Ferizi told them he was being accused of being in Syria in 2013, the relative said.
Questions about Syrian travel
The family handed over his old passport to investigators, and the passport contained a stamp for a four-day trip to Turkey in 2013 when Ferizi was 17. He went there with his mother and father to attend a trade fair in Istanbul, according to the relative.
The family was shocked that authorities would pressure Ferizi so much over a four-day trip to Turkey with his parents, the relative said.
The relative spoke with Ferizi about 12 days into his detention, and during a five-minute conversation, Ferizi said that Malaysian authorities were pressing him hard on whether he traveled to Syria. Ferizi was becoming so tired that he “may accept what they are saying just to come home to Kosovo,” the relative said.
After five days, the family didn’t hear from Ferizi and woke up to see his name all over the news, the relative said. He said if the court would recognize that he is mentally ill and release him to his family, they could take care of him.
Malaysian authorities had been monitoring Ferizi for a few months after receiving information from the FBI, said Sr. Assistant Commissioner Datuk Ayob Khan Mydin Pitchay, head of the counterterrorism division, Special Branch of the Royal Malaysian Police.
Ferizi was arrested September 15 in Kuala Lumpur, the assistant commissioner said. He is under remand under a provisional arrest warrant while U.S. authorities apply for his extradition.
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14 Comments
8 years ago
Always remember the US created all those Muslim states in Europe by killing Orthodox Christians.
8 years ago
Reply to
Dark Chicago
Brought to you by the Klintoon admin
And the SOB currently in the WH led off the attack on individual Americans with Joe the plumber — several months before the election and the stupidified American voters still put him in — they are deserving of what they will get!
8 years ago
Reply to
Dark Chicago
There’s a bus billboard seen in Israek—“In a war between the savage and the civilised man, side with the civilised man, Fight Jihad.” Our glorious elites seem to prefer siding with the savage.
8 years ago
Soon he will not be in president and
8 years ago
This ain’t the first time Malaysia is involved with islamic terrorism – after all, the ruling regime – a moslem group – has been actively sponsoring various islamic terrorist groups throughout the world
When Qaddafi was alive Qaddafi used to buy shiploads of weapon from the North Koreans, sent them to Malaysia, and then the Malaysian ruling elites will take care of the distribution of the weapons – ranging from AK47 to landmines to grenades to RPGs – to islamic terrorist groups from Afghanistan to the Philippines
Malaysia was also the destination of Al-Qaeda chieftains to atted the planning session for the 911 strike which hit the WTC in NYC
In short, Malaysia is a terrorist state!
8 years ago
As the world’s strongest superpower the United States of America never could muster the gut to punish Malaysia for what they have done
From 911 to the bombing in Bangkok to the terrorist bombing in Bali, Indonesia to the islamic terrorist activies in Southern Philippines / Southern Thailand, every time something terrible happens in Asia, the Malaysian government is involved, one way or another
This Kosovo student came from Kosovo, and without the tacit encouragement from the Malaysian autocratic regime, he wouldn’t have the guts to carry out what he did
All net traffic to and from Malaysia are recorded and analyzed. Malaysia is one of the countries which purchased and installed ‘net spying’ infrastructure to carry out ‘man in the middle’ spying all net traffic
If that Kosovo student had not gotten any tacit encouragement from the Malaysian authority the ‘man in the middle’ spying device would have located that kid, a long time ago
8 years ago
Mohamedism makes you mentally ill.
8 years ago
“Strike at your necks in your own land” That sounds like it’s time to load up for open season on muzzies. “The streets will flow red with mohammedan blood”. I’ve had it up to the kiester with threats from these “people”.
8 years ago
Bring this kid back to the US and execute him.
8 years ago
Reply to
Wasmuth
are you kidding?? he will be pardoned by the fellow muzzi, obamad. “this kid is mentally ill” can’t you hear it already??
it will end like the Bergdahl case. it turns out that this bastard won’t be punished. that 6 other life was lost because of him… it doesn’t count… after all they weren’t muzlims.
8 years ago
string em up
8 years ago
Some good news. Hopefully Obama wont demand his release…
7 years ago
We f-ing told you this would happen!
-Sincerely, the Serbs
7 years ago
So everywhere else I read says he confessed to it.So was he rail – roaded into confessing or did he really do it.He is only 20.The Government needs to find everyone who is doing this.Then shoot all of them and ask questions later
