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Imam, Hussein e gli altri predicatori erranti: la via dei Balcani per colpire l’Italia

Posted on November 1, 2017November 1, 2017 by silvia.leo

Articolo di Gabriele Moroni, pubblicato oggi su Il Giorno. È il 2012 e la mappa aggiornata dell’Antiterrorismo copre l’intera penisola per dedicare una preoccupata riflessione alle strutture di culto “clandestine”, non ufficiali, e a quelle spacciate per associazioni para-culturali. Sarebbero circa 200, dalla Valle d’Aosta alla Sicilia le strutture “ombra” dove si farebbe del proselitismo, di cui 12 tenute sotto osservazione a Napoli. La base dell’indottrinamento rimane al Nord, con circa 45 fra soggetti e ritrovi…

Counter-terrorism in Italy: prevention and control over the territory

Posted on July 3, 2017July 4, 2017 by silvia.leo

Following the former General Director of Department of Information for the Security, Giampiero Massolo,”we learned a severest lesson during the years of our terrorism”. “We had gathered experience – he says – on how critical it is maintaining a regular dialogue, at operational level, between the intelligence and the police forces. The key word of effective counter-terrorism policies is the prevention and control over the territory. From this point of view – he clarifies –…

The distribution platforms of ISIS propaganda – UGC, websites, file hosting

Posted on February 14, 2017February 15, 2017 by silvia.leo

The skill that ISIS has acquired over the years in exploiting the web for propaganda is well known and extensively analyzed from various point of views. However, the majority of researches have been focused on the instant communication’s platforms (Tweeter, Facebook, etc.) because of their power to spread quickly and “stick” strongly. Social Networks are usually, and rightly, identified as the main medium through which ISIS’ propaganda is disseminated, but they are not always appropriate…

AQ 9/11 Anniversary Message

Posted on September 29, 2016February 14, 2017 by silvia.leo

The content of video speech of Al-Zawahiri, released in the eve of the 15th anniversary of the Twin Towers attack, is keeping the AQ communication model, revealing a wide and distinctive political strategy. His warning (“As long as your crimes continue, then the events of Sept 11 will be repeated a thousand times, Allah permitting”) plays as a perpetual sentence and a continued reappropriation of that attack. He declares that “The anniversary of 9/11 that…

20,000 ISIS military uniforms seized in Spain

Posted on April 13, 2016April 13, 2016 by silvia.leo

A “Follow Merchandise” investigation Last March, the Policía Nacional seized 20,000 military uniforms found in three shipping containers bound for Syria and Iraq’s areas controlled by ISIS and Jabhat al-Nusra. The shipment, stopped in the port of Algeciras and Valencia, was declared as secondhand clothing and travelled under the guise of humanitarian aid. The container seized in Algeciras was shipped from Jedda, Saudi Arabia, but uniforms came from a not specified “NATO country” (see full…

Digilantes – GhostSec & Co

Posted on November 4, 2015November 4, 2015 by silvia.leo

I recently came across some articles on the so-called “digilantes” and, in particular, one of their declination named GhostSec, a sort of hacktivist group dedicated to eliminate the online islamic extremist contents. Following information available on their activities, 59,000 Twitter accounts, 1,300 YouTube propaganda videos and 130 standalone sites would have been disabled as a result of GhostSec’s tip-offs. According to Michael S. Smith, the principal of national security company Kronos Advisory, the information GhostSec…

The Ashley Madison case

Posted on July 28, 2015November 4, 2015 by silvia.leo

Some days ago, Forbes published an article of Jason Bloomberg (http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonbloomberg/2015/07/23/ashley-madison-extortion-attack-critical-lessons-for-enterprise-cybersecurity/3/) highlighting some important lessons learned from this case. All the organizations are vulnerable to attack, but also “they have already been attacked”. So the real question to pose “is not when the attack might occur, but how long hackers have been inside a network and how best to mitigate further damage”. “Hackers are usually thieves, looking for financial gain. Some times they are vandals,…

Reclutamento jihad: l’amo del web

Posted on June 30, 2015November 4, 2015 by silvia.leo

Da qualche tempo, i gruppi qaedisti sono stati incorporati, per joint-venture, assorbimento o confluenza di comodo, nell’ISIS che, mettendo in atto strategie militari espansionistiche per realizzare il grande progetto del Califfato, sta dimostrando una maggior capacità di reclutamento, specialmente attraverso il suo apparato mass-mediatico. Il web, in particolare, si è rivelato uno strumento potente, sapientemente utilizzato non più solo per diffondere i messaggi/ordini del “capo”, ma anche per creare modelli socioculturali, veicolati attraverso immagini seducenti,…

The nexus between terrorism and Latin America drug-trafficking networks

Posted on February 4, 2014November 4, 2015 by silvia.leo

Abstract During the last ten years, drug trafficking, transnational gangs and other criminal organizations have grown in size and strength and, according to Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Al Qaeda groups in West Africa were charging protection fees to cocaine drug-trafficking groups affiliated with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). Terrorist group operatives would also be linked to Mexican drug cartels and would receiving training, weapons and cash from sources in Latin America. The interconnection…

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