Osborne raises spectre of Isis cyber attacks on UK

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Osborne raises spectre of Isis cyber attacks on UK

High quality global journalism requires investment. Please share this article with others using the link below, do not cut & paste the article. See our Ts&Cs and Copyright Policy for more detail. Email ftsales.support@ft.com to buy additional rights. In August, a Birmingham-born hacker for Isis named Junaid Hussain was believed killed by a US drone strike in Syria. Hussain had travelled to Syria and become one of the leaders of the Islamist group’s “cyber-caliphate”. The group is adept at using social media for propaganda purposes; its main hacking feat so far was to briefly penetrate the Twitter and YouTube accounts of US Central Command.   High quality global journalism requires investment. Please share this article with others using the link below, do not cut & paste the article. See our Ts&Cs and Copyright Policy for more detail. Email ftsales.support@ft.com to buy additional rights. On Tuesday, in a speech at GCHQ, the UK’s eavesdropping agency, George Osborne, chancellor, said Isis’s ambitions went far further, suggesting the terror group might try cyber attacks on air traffic control or hospitals. “Isil are already using the internet for hideous propaganda purposes,” he said. “They have not been able to use it to kill people […]

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