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posted by martyb on Wednesday June 14 2017, @05:31AM   Printer-friendly
from the wac-a-mole dept.

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


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Lagg on Wednesday June 14 2017, @08:24AM

    by Lagg (105) on Wednesday June 14 2017, @08:24AM (#525332) Homepage Journal

    “There are things we are doing both with space and cyber that are being effectively synchronized to achieve important effects even in Mosul and Raqqa.”

    Also this kind of social media engagement seems familiar somehow. Anyway, I saw something interesting in the article. Apparently what infuriated the Israeli's about Trump's stupid goddamn chimp lipped mouth was that the operation he leaked had to do with people that infiltrated a bomb making group. But it wasn't an actual infiltration, they just cracked their systems. I'm a little perturbed by this because I was genuinely concerned about the guys that did it. Due to the representation of it as an actual "Hello, I am Muhammed. I want to make bombs in this building with you as other bombs drop" threat to human life.

    Hey, maybe that's why it's not cool to call internet internet anymore. Easier to upset people and make them worried. Hm. That's mean tho

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