Daesh backers hack Syria observatory site

BEIRUT: Purported supporters of the hard-line Daesh group hacked the website of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights watchdog and threatened its Syrian director who has documented abuses on all sides of Syria’s war.
The Britain-based Observatory, which tracks the conflict using sources on the ground, took down its website after the online attack from a group calling itself “The Cyber Army of the Khilafah.”
The cybertattackers had posted the face of Observatory director Rami Abdulrahman superimposed over a hostage wearing an orange jumpsuit and kneeling next to a Daesh militant holding a knife, according to the SITE monitoring service. “They are trying to stop us,” Abdulrahman said by telephone, confirming the SITE report.
“When you work in human rights, you know you get such threats but never like that. It is a serious message.”