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15:36
29.01.2015(updated 16:08 29.01.2015)
Tel
Aviv-based senior analyst at Singaporean cyberintelligence company claimed he
had managed to track down an IS website via a referral on a Turkish forum. The
unnamed site contained messages by a user nicknamed Abu-Mustafa, explaining how
to send donations to the Islamists.
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REUTERS/ Stringer
MOSCOW,
January 29 (Sputnik) — The Islamic State (IS) jihadist group is using
cybercurrency bitcoin to carry out anonymous financial transactions,
Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported Thursday.
"Due
to the increasing efforts of social media websites to close
ISIS-related accounts, it was estimated that global jihad activists would seek
refuge in the dark web," Ido Wulkan, a Tel Aviv-based senior analyst
at Singaporean cyberintelligence company S2T, was quoted as saying
by Haaretz.
The
dark web consists of private networks where content is hidden
from standard search engines and connections can only be made between trusted
peers.
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REUTERS/ Yaser Hasan
Wulkan
claimed he had managed to track down an IS website via a
referral on a Turkish forum. The unnamed site contained messages by a
user nicknamed Abu-Mustafa, explaining how to send donations to the
Islamists.
"Donations
may be made through various means both monetary and physical… though
anything besides economic support through Bitcoin must be approved
by the board and taken with much caution due to the security
apparatus' recent crackdown on any and all Islamic change fronts here
in the United States," Abu-Mustafa allegedly wrote.
The
user's account is said to have been shut down by the FBI.
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The
IS is a radical Sunni group that controls large territories in Iraq and
Syria. It is infamous for its online propaganda, which includes video
postings and social media interaction to attract funding, recruit future
IS members as well as to threaten its opponents.
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