The US Army has deployed new online digital weapons to attack the Islamic State (EI) and end their communications, coordination of their members and their funding sources in Syria and Iraq, said Monday the Pentagon chief Ashton Carter.
"We are using cybernetic to disrupt the ability of the Islamic State to operate and communicate in the virtual battlefield tools," Carter announced today, the first US military in detail the digital operations against the Islamic State.
During a press conference at the Pentagon, Carter said the US "It is trying to speed" on all fronts the campaign against jihadist group, which bombards since August 2014 in Iraq and since September of that year in Syria at the head of an international coalition.
According to Carter, the new military offensive led by the Cyber Command Pentagon seeks to "disrupt the ability to address the Islamic State, to lose confidence in their networks due to overload their electronic networks, do they can not work ".
To perpetrate attacks on internal communications of terrorists, US blockers used often used to block radio signals, explained Carter.