Earlier this year, the Pentagon unveiled a sweeping plan to target ISIS’ online infrastructure and well-oiled propaganda machine. “Although technology is not typically associated with jihadists, it is their lifeblood,” write researchers Laith Alkhouri and Alex Kassirer in their report titled “ Tech for Jihad: Dissecting Jihadists’ Digital Toolbox.” The pair based their findings on an analysis of extremist forums on the deep web where ISIS-sympathizes and other professed jihadists gather to swap terror tips and peddle encrypted devices, most of them free and readily accessible online.Īnalysts and law enforcement officials have long warned of terror groups “ going dark” on the internet by using new tech products to mask their identity and whereabouts, making these groups increasingly difficult to monitor. ISIS and its extremist counterparts, such as al-Qaeda, also turn to this technology to help recruit, radicalize, and even orchestrate attacks. Islamist terror groups leverage everything from temporary email services to tools that provide bogus GPS locations in order to skirt online detection and minimize the risk of cyber attacks against them, the intelligence firm Flashpoint found. The Islamic State and other jihadist organizations are deftly employing dozens of digital products to mask their activity online, a new study shows.

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