Cyber fighters of Izz Ad-Din Al Qassam
Aliases: Fraternal Jackal
- First seen
- 2012-09-01 00:00:00
- Origin
- IR
- Primary motivation
- ideology
- Sophistication
- intermediate
- Resource level
- team
- Actor type
- hacktivist
- Profile updated
- 2026-07-07 11:54:04
Targeted industries: financial-services
Targeted regions: country_code:us
Context
The Cyber fighters of Izz Ad-Din Al Qassam was a hacktivist group notable for orchestrating Operation Ababil, targeting financial institutions in the US with distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, motivated by ideological opposition to perceived offenses against Islam.
Reports & references
- pastebin.com — Qassamcyberfighters (report)
- ddanchev.blogspot.com.es — Dissecting Operation Ababil Osint (report)