Jabaroot amenaza con revelar identidades de espías marroquíes tras crisis migratoria en Ceuta

A group of hackers calling themselves Jabaroot has issued a stark threat: release the identities of 70,000 Moroccan intelligence agents unless certain officials resign. The ultimatum arrived on a Telegram channel late Tuesday night, framed as retaliation for what the group characterizes as a coordinated attack on Spain—the sudden arrival of 70,000 migrants in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta on July 30th.

To back up their claim, Jabaroot provided a sample of names, birth dates, and identity documents belonging to agents from Morocco's Directorate General for Territorial Surveillance, known by its French acronym DGST. The organization is headed by Abdelatif Hammouchi, who also serves as the country's top police official. The leaked roster, first reported by the Spanish outlet El Confidencial, was meant to demonstrate that the group possessed genuine access to sensitive personnel files.

The hackers point fingers at two figures they believe orchestrated the migrant surge. The first is Fouad Ali el Himma, an adviser to King Mohammed VI. The second remains unnamed, though Jabaroot claims both men engineered the crisis to destabilize Spain. In their Telegram messages, the group asserts that the Moroccan king himself was unaware of the operation. They also suggest that the plot unfolded with the knowledge of two foreign powers—language that observers interpret as references to the United States, a major military and intelligence partner of Morocco, and Israel.

Jabaroot's demands are direct and personal. They call for Hammouchi's resignation, framing him as the operative who carried out the attack. In one message, they wrote that he should surrender his credentials and leave, calling him a failure whose time had ended. The tone is confrontational, almost contemptuous—the language of actors who believe they hold leverage and are willing to use it.

This is not the group's first incursion into Moroccan government databases. Jabaroot has previously leaked the names of 3,400 workers employed at the royal palaces, personal data on two million people enrolled in Morocco's social security system, and property records belonging to prominent politicians including Nasser Bourita, the foreign minister. One earlier breach led to the removal of Mostafa Rabil, who directed the General Directorate of Information Systems Security. The pattern suggests either sustained access to multiple government networks or a series of successful intrusions over time.

Moroccan authorities have responded by linking Jabaroot to Algeria, a country with which Morocco severed diplomatic relations in August 2021. The accusation sits within a larger geopolitical rivalry centered on the Western Sahara conflict. By attributing the hacking group to a foreign adversary, Moroccan officials frame the data breaches not as failures of their own cybersecurity but as acts of state-sponsored aggression. Whether that attribution holds, or whether Jabaroot operates independently, remains unclear. What is certain is that a group claiming access to the personal details of tens of thousands of intelligence workers has made a public threat to expose them—and Morocco's government faces mounting pressure to respond.