Britain launched cyber attacks on ISIS to halt the flow of foreign fighters, Nato’s chief reveals
BRITAIN used hi-tech cyber weapons to halt the flow of foreign fighters to ISIS, the head of NATO has revealed.
Jens Stoltenberg said that the secret mission also stopped the evil terrorists spreading their propaganda and stopped them launching attacks.
He told a London conference that western countries must be ready to use their “cyber capabilities to fight an enemy”.
And he went on: “As some NATO Allies did, not least the UK, successfully in the campaign against ISIS in Iraq and Syria.
“By using national cyber effects – or offensive cyber, they suppressed ISIS propaganda, degraded their ability to coordinate attacks, and disrupted their recruitment of foreign fighters.”
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It is thought that the operation involved intelligence experts from GCHQ working alongside Special Forces and the US in jamming signals from jihadi commanders in the battlefield in Syria and Iraq.
They also spread computer viruses to take down Islamic State’s slick publishing operation that shared vile beheading videos and terrorist instruction manuals.
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