Islamic State's collapse hastened with help of Australian cyber spies

Krusty · Mar 26, 2019

With the so-called Islamic State (IS) group on the brink of collapse, new details are emerging of how Australian operatives working from the other side of the globe helped to defeat the terrorists.

In a rare public address, the head of the secretive Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) will today declassify details of operations where cyber spies worked remotely with the Department of Defence to destroy IS communications in the Middle East.

"Just as the coalition forces were preparing to attack the terrorists' position, our offensive cyber operators were at their keyboards in Australia — firing highly targeted bits and bytes into cyberspace," ASD director Mike Burgess will reveal in a speech on Wednesday, the details of which have been obtained by the ABC.

"Daesh [Islamic State] communications were degraded within seconds — terrorist commanders couldn't connect to the internet and were unable to communicate with each other."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-03...state-middle-east/10942570?section=technology

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