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GCHQ head says U.K. engaged in cyberwarfare against ISIS

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The director of GCHQ revealed in a speech on Thursday that Britain’s top signals intelligence agency had conducted a proactive cyber campaign against ISIS, touting the notion of using hacking tools to counter violent extremism. Speaking at the CYBERUK conference in Manchester, England, GCHQ Director Jeremy Fleming said that the agency worked with the U.K. Ministry of Defense to develop and deploy the country’s cyber weapons. “Much of this is too sensitive to talk about, but I can tell you that GCHQ, in partnership with the Ministry of Defense, has conducted a major offensive cyber-campaign against Daesh,” Fleming said, using the terror group’s Arabic acronym. Fleming said the attack was the first time the U.K. “systematically and persistently degraded an adversary’s online efforts as part of a wider military campaign.” “They [ISIS] understand the value of strategic communications, the power of social media, of messaging apps to radicalize and scare,” […]

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Kaspersky’s ‘Slingshot’ report burned an ISIS-focused intelligence operation

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The U.S. government and Russian cybersecurity giant Kaspersky Lab are currently in the throes of a nasty legal fight that comes on top of a long-running feud over how the company has conducted itself with regard to U.S. intelligence-gathering operations. A recent Kaspersky discovery may keep the feud alive for years to come. CyberScoop has learned that Kaspersky research recently exposed an active, U.S.-led counterterrorism cyber-espionage operation. According to current and former U.S. intelligence officials, the operation was used to target ISIS and al-Qaeda members. On March 9, Kaspersky publicly announced a malware campaign dubbed “Slingshot.” According to the company’s researchers, the campaign compromised thousands of devices through breached routers in various African and Middle Eastern countries, including Afghanistan, Iraq, Kenya, Sudan, Somalia, Turkey and Yemen. Kaspersky did not attribute Slingshot to any single country or government in its public report, describing it only as an advanced persistent threat (APT). But current and […]

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Extremist Groups: Using the Internet to Foment Online Radicalization

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Anyone with access to the internet can have their voice heard. And this is exactly the philosophy behind the extremist online radicalization and recruitment efforts of various terrorist organizations, including Hezbollah and ISIS/ISIL (Islamic State of… Continue reading Extremist Groups: Using the Internet to Foment Online Radicalization→

Activists Hack ‘Secure’ ISIS Mailing List and Publish 2K Subscribers Online

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A group of Muslim activists hacked a ‘secure’ mailing list used by the ISIS terrorist group and published 2,000 of its email subscribers online. On 10 November, a spokesperson for Amaq, one of the Islamic State’s key outlets for communicating with its supporters and members, sent out an email written in Arabic to its subscribers. […]… Read More

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Someone Hacked Swedish Radio Station to Play Pro-ISIS Song

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A private radio station in Sweden Mix Megapol suffered a cyber

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