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The Cyberwarfare campaign against ISIS is apparently somewhat of a failure. It has not had the desired outcome on their recruitment and pr-campaign machines. Apparently the enemy just keeps on setting up new accounts. So it's almost like a real world guerrilla warfare but in cyberspace (apparently it's not cool enough to just call it the Internet anymore).
... the results have been a consistent disappointment
... it has become clear that recruitment efforts and communications hubs reappear almost as quickly as they are torn down.
In the endeavor, called Operation Glowing Symphony, the National Security Agency and its military cousin, United States Cyber Command, obtained the passwords of several Islamic State administrator accounts and used them to block out fighters and delete content. It was initially deemed a success because battlefield videos disappeared. ... But the results were only temporary. American officials later discovered that the material had been either restored or moved to other servers.
Some of the effects are employed repeatedly over days. Locking Islamic State propaganda specialists out of their accounts — or using the coordinates of their phones and computers to target them for a drone attack — is now standard operating procedure.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/12/world/middleeast/isis-cyber.html?_r=0
(Score: 3, Informative) by bradley13 on Wednesday June 14 2017, @05:50AM (6 children)
Ah, but it's still a success at it's primary mission. "Operation Glowing Symphony" (what a name) still provides a conduit for $millions for crony capitalism, transferred from taxpayers pockets to the elite.
"In Operation Glowing Symphony, U.S. Cyber Command accessed ISIS admin accounts using stolen passwords, then deleted the content and changed the passwords."
Oh, wow. Professional script kiddies.
"U.S. Cyber Command hopes for a bigger slice of the federal budget pie...seeking $647 million in fiscal year 2018" [criticalinformatics.com]
Damned expensive script kiddies.
Everyone is somebody else's weirdo.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 14 2017, @05:54AM (1 child)
Support the troops! Conquer cyber!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 14 2017, @11:31AM
The battle for Cyber Pass begins.
(Score: 2) by sjames on Wednesday June 14 2017, @06:39AM (2 children)
Not that professional. Real script kiddies wouldn't have just deleted things, they would replace them with things sure to offend the target audience.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday June 14 2017, @06:57AM (1 child)
Bacon.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Wednesday June 14 2017, @07:29PM
The scene from the first episode of Black Mirror.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 14 2017, @11:54AM
Their TV commercials suck too.