Andrew Probyn, ABC, How Australian cyber spies used ‘Rickrolling’ to disrupt Islamic State militants in Iraq, 5 June 2023 “Light Bolt was a sneaky bit of coding that was surreptitiously put on Islamic State fighters’ phones and computers without them ever knowing — no text message needed clicking, nor did it require a phishing email to be answered.”
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