Cómo la tecnología lleva a un hacker de ISIS a la fama y a la muerte

Cómo la tecnología lleva a un hacker de ISIS a la fama y a la muerte

Laurie Segall explora la vida y la muerte de Junaid Hussain, el hacker de ISIS que inició una nueva era de terror, principalmente debido a su fama en las redes sociales.


Hussain was known as TriCk from the disbanded hacking group TeaMp0isoN.[2][9] He was a key figure in a group of Islamist computer hackers who call themselves the Cyber Caliphate. The Islamist hackers have been involved in defacing French websites during the 2015 Île-de-France attacks and the Twitter feeds of the U.S. Central Command, Newsweek and the International Business Times.[1] The group is believed to be behind the use of a spearphishing attack that exposed identities of rebel media groups.[10]
In March 2015, Hussain released a list of U.S. military personnel requesting that ISIL followers execute people on the list. While Hussain claimed to have breached US Department of Defense servers, the FBI assessed that the list was cobbled together from news articles, social media posts, and public records.[11]
Hussain was in online contact with one of the gunmen behind the Curtis Culwell Center attack of May 2015. Before the incident, an attacker posted online statements on Twitter, in which he requested others to follow Hussain's account. After the shooting occurred, Hussain wrote: "Allahu Akbar!!!! 2 of our brothers just opened fire."[12][original research?]

Attempts on life and death[edit]

An attempted lethal drone strike on Hussain instead killed three civilians and injured five about ten days before his death.[13]
The Sunday Times reported that US officials had a strong desire to assassinate Hussain, listing him as the third highest ISIL target on the Pentagon's "kill list" behind Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and Mohammed Emwazi due to his role in inspiring international lone wolf terrorism.[14][15][16] US government sources reported Hussain was killed with two of his bodyguards in a drone strike on a car in a Raqqa petrol station on August 24, 2015.[a] Hussain, 21 at the time of his reported death, was married to Sally Jones, 45, a former punk rocker and fellow Briton, who denied his death through IS-linked Twitter accounts.[17][18] Jones later confirmed he was killed. Hussain was reportedly killed in a drone strike that was targeted as a result of him clicking on a compromised Internet link.[19]

See also[edit]

Kings heath, wheeler's lane boys school

Notes[edit]

  1. Jump up^ Because of the international dateline, the date in Iraq time is different to the date in U.S. time. The Pentagon's report says the drone strike occurred on August 24 while The New York Timesreports the strike occurred on August 25.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Jump up to:a b Russell Myers (13 January 2015). "British hacker suspected of cyber attack on US Central Command Twitter account". mirror.
  2. ^ Jump up to:a b RFSID. "Cyber Caliphate: ISIS Plays Offense on the Web". Recorded Future.
  3. Jump up^ "DailyTech - Anonymous vs. the ISIS Cyber Caliphate -- War in the Middle East Goes Digital". dailytech.com.
  4. Jump up^ Thomas Halleck (14 January 2015). "Junaid Hussain: CyberCaliphate Leader And ISIS Member Was Behind CENTCOM Hack, Report Says". International Business Times.
  5. Jump up^ Emma Graham-Harrison. "Could Isis’s ‘cyber caliphate’ unleash a deadly attack on key targets?". the Guardian.
  6. Jump up^ Jamie Dettmer. "Digital jihad: ISIS, Al Qaeda seek a cyber caliphate to launch attacks on US". Fox News.
  7. Jump up^ "ISIS is ramping up efforts to mount a massive cyber attack". Security Affairs.
  8. Jump up^ Sam Biddle. "Investigators Think This UK ISIS Defector Is Behind the CENTCOM Hack". Weird Internet. Gawker Media. Archived from the original on 2016-02-04.
  9. Jump up^ Tim Lister, CNN (7 May 2015). "Cheerleaders and freelancers: new actors in terrorism - CNN.com". CNN.
  10. Jump up^ CBSNews. "ISIS hacker behind U.S. military "hit list" believed killed in Syria". News Agency.
  11. Jump up^ Holly Yan, CNN (May 5, 2015). "Who are the gunmen behind the Texas shooting?". CNN.
  12. Jump up^ Holly Yan, CNN (May 5, 2015). "Who are the gunmen behind the Texas shooting?". CNN.
  13. Jump up^ "Airstrike targeting British hacker working for Isis killed three civilians instead, US admits". The Guardian. January 29, 2016. Retrieved January 29, 2016.
  14. Jump up^ "British hacker is No 3 on Pentagon 'kill list'". The Sunday Times. August 2, 2015. Retrieved September 1, 2015.
  15. Jump up^ "Junaid Hussain: How a Boy From Birmingham Became ISIS's Leading Hacker". Newsweek. August 27, 2015. Retrieved September 1, 2015.
  16. Jump up^ Michael Safi (August 12, 2015). "Isis 'hacking division' releases details of 1,400 Americans and urges attacks". The Guardian. Retrieved September 1, 2015.
  17. Jump up^ Charlotte Meredith (August 28, 2015). "The Islamic State's Top Hacker Was Killed in a US Drone Strike". VICE. Retrieved August 29, 2015.
  18. Jump up^ "Sally Jones". Counter Extremism Project.
  19. Jump up^ James Cartledge (September 16, 2015). "Isis terrorist Junaid Hussain killed in drone attack after boffins 'crack group's code'".

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