Citizen Lab ISIS map

A Syrian citizen media group critical of Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) was recently targeted in a customized digital attack designed to unmask their location, according to a report from The Citizen Lab, recipient of the MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions, in collaboration with Cyber Arabs. The group, Raqqah is being Slaughtered Silently, documents human rights abuses by ISIS elements occupying the city of Ar-Raqah. In response, ISIS forces in the city have reportedly targeted the group with house raids, kidnappings, and an alleged assassination, as well as online threats, including taunts that ISIS is spying on the group.