Alleged IS Supporters Hack Future TV's Website

Suspected supporters of the Islamic State group managed Sunday to hack into the website of Lebanon's Future TV and post messages supportive of the extremist group.

The website was briefly defaced with IS' trademark black and white jihadist flag and an Arabic-language message before its administrators managed to recover it.

The message praised the group's militants and supporters in Syria and Iraq for their so-called “steadfastness” in the face of a “five-year assault” by several “global forces.”

The hackers boasted that the IS will however emerge victorious through “God's support.”

“The Islamic State is a real threat to the masonic world order because it has broken the borders drawn by the Sykes–Picot Agreement, managing to establish a strong state that is bigger than Britain!,” the message adds.

The IS has allegedly issued a threat against a number of world targets, including the Holy Spirit University of Kaslik in Lebanon, according to Anonymous, the loosely associated international network of hacktivists.

The threat prompted the university administration to cancel an academic event that was scheduled at the campus on Sunday.

The locations include three in Paris, two in Rome and one in Indonesia.

The developments come in the wake of twin IS suicide bombings in the Beirut southern suburb of Bourj al-Barajneh, a Hizbullah stronghold, and unprecedented coordinated attacks in Paris that have sent shockwaves across the world.

At least 43 people were killed and 239 others wounded in the Dahieh attack as the Paris assault left 130 people dead and scores wounded.

Y.R.