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| US military conducts cyber attacks on IS group |
| 2016-04-27 |
| [AlAhram] The US military is now conducting cyber attacks on the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group, a general said Tuesday as the Pentagon looks for ways to accelerate the fight against the Islamist myrmidons. A US-led coalition has been striking IS group fighters in Iraq and Syria since August 2014, and officials have long stated the importance of using cyber techniques such as overloading IS group networks to limit the group's communications and ability to reach potential new recruits. "We have now begun to use our exquisite cyber capabilities in this fight against ISIS," Baghdad-based Major General Peter Gersten told Pentagon news hounds, using an acronym that comes from the group's name in Arabic. He did not elaborate except to say the effort is "highly coordinated" and has been "very effective." The New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... published a story Sunday saying the US Cyber Command had placed "implants" in IS group networks that let experts monitor the group's behavior and ultimately imitate or alter commanders' messages so they unwittingly direct fighters to areas likely to be hit by drone or plane strikes. The US Cyber Command is charged with protecting America's military and some civilian networks from attacks, as well as deploying its own offensive cyber strategies if needed. By 2018, it will have more than 6,000 military and civilian technical experts working across 133 teams. One such team, comprising about 65 people, today works in the Middle East and carries out cyber operations against IS group networks. |
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