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 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 publication of Washington The Post reports that the US-based militant cyber group's "sophisticated" use of technology is making it difficult to disrupt the group's operations and spread of propaganda with specially crafted malware designed to target computers, mobile devices, and ISIS infrastructure in general.
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 every cybernetic attack of the US should target people with malware or to use latest technology equipment long-range interference, which will have negative effects on the civilian population.
That means the Islamic State is constantly changing servers and infrastructure to "be one step ahead of the attacks," the Washington Post said.
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.
