Nerds Shut Down ISIS

hawki · Sep 28, 2019

"...Dina Temple-Raston gives us this riveting report on Operation Glowing Symphony ...which in November 2016 launched a cyber-attack from Fort Meade, outside of Baltimore, against the websites ISIS used to spread propaganda, raise funds, and recruit terrorists:

By the fall of 2016 there was a team, Joint Task Force ARES; there was a plan called Operation Glowing Symphony, and there were briefings — that had gone right up to the president. It was only then that there was finally a go….

They began moving through the ISIS networks they had mapped for months..."

http://dakotafreepress.com/2019/09/27/nerds-shut-down-isis/

act8192 · Sep 28, 2019

hawki said: ↑

"...Dina Temple-Raston gives us this riveting report on Operation Glowing Symphony ...which in November 2016 launched a cyber-attack from Fort Meade, outside of Baltimore, against the websites ISIS used to spread propaganda, raise funds, and recruit terrorists:
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They began moving through the ISIS networks they had mapped for months..."

http://dakotafreepress.com/2019/09/27/nerds-shut-down-isis/
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Thank you for the link. What a fascinating story

mood · Jan 22, 2020

OP Glowing Symphony – How US military claims to have disrupted ISIS ‘s propaganda
January 22, 2020
https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/96695/terrorism/op-glowing-symphony-isis.html

In 2016, the US Cyber Command carried out successful operations against the online propaganda of the Islamic State (ISIS), this is what emerged from declassified national security top-secret documents released on Tuesday.
The documents have been release under a Freedom of Information Act request.

According to the documents, the US Cyber Command “successfully contested ISIS in the information domain,” its operations had a significant impact on online radicalization and recruitment of the terrorist organization.

“Today the National Security Archive is releasing 6 USCYBERCOM documents obtained through FOIA which shed new light on the campaign to counter ISIS in cyberspace.” reads a post published by the National Security Archive at George Washington University. “These documents, ranging from a discussion of assessment frameworks to the 120-day assessment of Operation GLOWING SYMPHONY, reveal the unprecedented complexity of the operation, resulting challenges in coordination and deconfliction, and assessments of effectiveness.”
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ZDNet: US Cyber Command was not prepared to handle the amount of data it hacked from ISIS

According to a 120-day post-mortem assessment of Operation Glowing Symphony, US Cyber Command did not anticipate the magnitude of the data they would eventually end up exfiltrating from compromised ISIS infrastructure.

"The assessment reveals that a key challenge to exploitation was storage of the data itself, an indication of the operation's scope relative to USCYBERCOM's capacity at the time," said Michael Martelle, analyst for the National Security Archive.
Operation Glowing Symphony has been detailed in other reports by NPR, ABC, and Darknet Diaries.
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zapjb · Jan 22, 2020

I was hoping it was 10 year olds from their families computers in the living room.

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