Pentagon admits it is 'looking to accelerate' cyber-attacks against Isis
Source: The Guardian
Pentagon admits it is 'looking to accelerate' cyber-attacks against Isis
US military acknowledges for the first time during an active war
that its using its storehouse of new digital weapons to disrupt
communications networks
Spencer Ackerman in New York
Monday 29 February 2016 18.09 GMT
The Pentagon has acknowledged using its storehouse of new digital weapons to attack Islamic State communications networks, the first time that the US military has acknowledged doing so during an active war.
Operators from the US Cyber Command, the young military command twinned to the National Security Agency, have launched assaults on nodes, overloading them with data, US defense chief Ashton Carter said on Monday.
Carter told reporters the US was looking to accelerate cyber-strikes he likened to the traditional disruption of enemy command networks.
The US cyber-attacks, which Carter said complemented familiar methods of signal jamming over radio frequencies, seek to instill a loss of confidence in the security and efficacy of internal Isis communications.
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