Australian cyber-op attacked ISIL with the terrifying power of Rickrolling
Australia's Signals Directorate, the signals intelligence organization, has revealed it employed zero-click attacks on devices used by fighters for Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant – then unleashed the terrifying power of Rick Astley., reveals that the Directorate developed three payloads it could deploy to ISIL fighters' smartphones and PCs"without ISIL having to interact with the device in any way.
A second payload,"Care Bear," could also take a device offline, but ISIL's tech support team found a workaround for that attack. The three payloads were used against just 47 devices, on 81 occasions. But the documentary describes how even that level of intervention made a difference as commanders in the field were able to request the ASD act against fighters in real time – and those fighters struggle to coordinate their defense.
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