Anonymous sends warning to Donald Trump

Taking time out of its busy schedule on a day it had announced as 'day of ISIS trolling', the online hacktivist collective Anonymous spared some time to launch a campaign against the US Presidential candidate Donald Trump.

Anonymous countered by Trump's actions further ISIS' goals.

The New Yorker took aim not at Trump, but the media, calling on TV news outlets to hold Trump more accountable for his statements. This is what ISIS wants. "You have been warned Mr. Donald Trump", a member, wearing the group's trademark Guy Fawkes mask, made famous by the book and film V For Vendetta, said. This policy is going to have a huge impact. The call for a ban on Muslims traveling to the United States came after the killing of 14 people by a Muslim married couple in San Bernadino, one of whom had recently immigrated to the United States.

Donald Trump held onto his commanding lead in the Republican race for the White House after his call for a ban on Muslims entering the United States was condemned worldwide, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll, the first national survey conducted entirely after the billionaire's remarks.

The website for Trump Towers, the Republican Presidential hopeful's glitzy skyscraper in Manhattan, was taken offline for around an hour today.

Shutting down the website for Trump Tower is not a bold step. Donald Trump, think twice before you speak anything.

If the reports of Anonymous' success are true, then Trump joins a high-profile list of targets.

Nine in 10 Republican voters also say that honesty is an important quality in a presidential candidate, and they're split on whether that's a description that applies to Trump.

Trump also voiced support for local police departments using military equipment, a usage that President Barack Obama has been working to limit.