Australia claims world first in cyber war

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https://www.afr.com/technology/technology-companies/australia-claims-world-first-in-cyber-war-20190326-p517q6

By Angus Grigg
National Affairs Correspondent
The Australian Financial Review
March 27, 2019

As coalition forces moved along the Iraqi section of the Tigris River in 
mid-2016, 11,000 kilometres away in Canberra cyber warriors were at their 
keyboards waiting to strike.

In what Australia's digital spy chief claims to be a world first, cyber 
operatives hacked into ISIS communications, rendered them useless and 
ultimately allowed coalition troops to retake the territory.

"It was the first time that an offensive cyber operation had been conducted so 
closely synchronised with the movements of military personnel in theatre," Mike 
Burgess, the Director-General of the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) will 
claim on Wednesday.

"Terrorist commanders couldn’t connect to the internet and were unable to 
communicate with each other."

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