Junaid Hussain, the leader of the Islamic State Hacking Divison team working for ISIS, was killed on Tuesday in a US Army offshore aircraft attack (drone), according to the Wall Street Journal.
Hussain, also known as Abu Hussain al-Britani, was a British, who joined ISIS a few years ago and created a hacking group in Syria called CyberCaliphate.
Prior to joining ISIS, Hussain had gained notoriety in the circles of hackers after he had hacked and stolen former British Prime Minister Tony Blair's electronic address book. This happened in 2012 and Hussain spent six months in jail for his act. A year later, he moved to Syria to join ISIS.
Σαν ηγέτης της CyberCaliphate, πέρασε το μεγαλύτερο μέρος του χρόνου του για την στρατολόγηση νέων μελών του ΙSIS μέσω των κοινωνικών δικτύων, αλλά συμμετείχε επίσης και στη δημιουργία διαφόρων εργαλείων hacking καθώς και στην education νέων χάκερς στο εσωτερικό του ISIS.
His biggest success in hacking was in August when he managed to leaked data from several US nationals which belong to the Air Force, Navy, NASA, FBI, State Department and New York and New Jersey Port Authority.
The data was posted on Twitter, with Hussain and other ISIS members urging the "lone wolves" to analyze it and attack military personnel.
According to reports on the internet, the US military used tracking technologies built into today's smartphones and in the applications for cell phones τηλέφωνα, και κατάφερε να εντοπίσει και να σκοτώσει τον Hussain, χτυπώντας τον από ένα μη επανδρωμένο σκάφος (drone) ενώ αυτός βρισκόταν στο αυτοκίνητό του μπροστά από το home of.
