Belgium, Europol launch cyberattack on Daesh news agency
The Belgian federal public prosecutor and Europol
launched a cyberattack on the servers of a Daesh-linked news agency, Brussels
Times reported Monday.
“Many accounts have been deactivated and websites
have been put out of business,” said spokesperson for the federal prosecutor’s
office, Eric Van Der Sypt.
The Belgian federal public prosecutor conducted a
similar operation on Amaq in 2018, but the news agency and the annexed sites
and accounts were reactivated shortly afterwards.
“We were a little surprised and that’s why we tried
to do better this time,” said Van Der Sypt. “The operation seems to have been
successful,” Van Der Sypt added.
Europol and the Belgian federal public prosecutor
are expected to explain the operation in more detail later on Monday during a
press conference in The Hague.
