The so-called "cyber bombs" or "cyber bombs" used by the US military on ISIS targets do not seem to work as well as they had hoped.
Defense Secretary Ash Carter he was the one who coined the term "cyber bombs" in an interview with NPR earlier this year, describing the US military's aggressive policy against the radical terrorist group.
But a new Washington Post publication says that the US Internet militant group's "sophisticated" use of technology is difficult to disrupt and propagate the team's specially crafted malware designed to target computers, mobile devices, and more generally. the ISIS infrastructure.
The Pentagon earlier this year advanced to the almost unheard-of revelation that it is reorganizing its cyber-attacks against the Islamic state (ISIS).
Carter did not say exactly how the Pentagon plans to achieve his goals, but he suggested he could benefit from the US government's stock of malware and cyber-weapons.
With them, US officials hoped to interrupt and disrupt the "command and control" devices of the terrorist group.
It turns out very difficult.
The Washington Post said in a statement Friday that the US has so far not developed "a complete suite of malware and other tools that are tailored to attack a dramatically different opponent than the nation-states created to fight".
The situation is difficult because the ISIS team is not a government or a normal nation-state, based on stable and traditional infrastructure such as North Korea and Iran.
It is decentralized and constantly changing infrastructure. So any US government attack should target people with malicious software or to use latest technology equipment long-range interference, which will have negative effects on the civilian population.
Αυτό σημαίνει ότι το Ισλαμικό Κράτος αλλάζει συνεχώς servers και υποδομές για να “είναι ένα βήμα μπροστά από τις attacks”, αναφέρει η Washington Post.
The Lieutenant Edward Cardon, whose job is to oversee the department of the National Security Service (NSAwho is responsible for the creation of digital weapons, admits that this war is "not going to be won in cyberspace".
This is, of course, the first time that the US military has openly admitted to using cyber-weapons and attack tactics in Internet traditionally used by intelligence agencies.
