Behind closed doors in a windowless room, Australian cyber spies snooped on Islamic State, plotting an online attack that would ultimately cripple the terror group's propaganda unit.
At an undisclosed location, in a windowless room, Australian cyber spies snooped on Islamic State, plotting an online attack that would ultimately cripple the terror group's propaganda unit.
The team produced glossy digital magazines in several languages that outlined ways to launch an attack and published high quality videos to recruit members from across the world with great success. "A lot of the individuals who worked on the virtual caliphate had the same salaries and titles as military commanders on the ground," said Lydia Khalil, a research fellow at the Lowy Institute.The Australian Signals Directorate is one of the nation's most secretive organisations and is tasked with intercepting foreign communication and cyber warfare.
The Australian team included hackers, or"offensive cyber operators" as they're officially called, counter terrorism experts, linguists, intelligence experts and technical specialists.
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