{"id":5318,"date":"2023-06-05T11:30:40","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T10:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/?p=5318"},"modified":"2023-06-05T11:30:41","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T10:30:41","slug":"rickrolling-islamic-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/2023\/06\/05\/rickrolling-islamic-state\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Rickrolling&#8217; &#8216;Islamic State&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2023-06-05\/australian-cyber-spies-disrupted-islamic-state-militants\/102425324\">Andrew Probyn, ABC, How Australian cyber spies used &#8216;Rickrolling&#8217; to disrupt Islamic State militants in Iraq, 5 June 2023<\/a> &#8220;Light Bolt\u00a0was a sneaky bit of coding that was surreptitiously put on Islamic State fighters&#8217; phones and computers without them ever knowing \u2014\u00a0no text message needed clicking, nor did it require a phishing email to be answered.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">How Australian cyber spies used &#39;Rickrolling&#39; to disrupt Islamic State militants in Iraq <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TK4rNb2QvY\">https:\/\/t.co\/TK4rNb2QvY<\/a> Interesting article; I hope I can see the programme in the UK.<\/p>&mdash; Gary Bunt (@garybunt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/garybunt\/status\/1665666260758134787?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 5, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Probyn, ABC, How Australian cyber spies used &#8216;Rickrolling&#8217; to disrupt Islamic State militants in Iraq, 5 June 2023 &#8220;Light Bolt\u00a0was a sneaky bit of coding that was surreptitiously put on Islamic State fighters&#8217; phones and computers without them ever knowing \u2014\u00a0no text message needed clicking, nor did it require a phishing email to be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,523],"tags":[183,524,300],"class_list":["post-5318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islamic-state","category-cyber-security","tag-islamic-state","tag-cyber-security","tag-iraq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5319,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5318\/revisions\/5319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}