Junaid Hussain
Junaid Hussain | |
|---|---|
| Born | c. 1994 Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant |
| Spouse | Sally-Anne Jones (?-2015) |
| Children | 1 |
Junaid Hussain (c. 1994 – 25 August 2015) was a British
Hussain was killed in 2015 via airstrike.
Hacking and propagandizing
Hussain was known as TriCk from the disbanded hacking group
In March 2015, Hussain released a list of U.S. military personnel requesting that ISIL followers execute people on the list. While Hussain claimed to have breached
Hussain was in online contact with one of the gunmen behind the Curtis Culwell Center attack of May 2015. Before the incident, an attacker posted online statements on Twitter, in which he requested others to follow Hussain's account. After the shooting occurred, Hussain wrote: "Allahu Akbar!!!! 2 of our brothers just opened fire."[11][original research?]
Attempts on life and death
An attempted lethal
US government sources reported Hussain, along with two of his bodyguards, was killed in a drone strike on a car in a Raqqa petrol station on 24 August 2015.[a] Hussain, 21 at the time of his reported death, was married to Sally Jones, 45, a fellow Briton who had joined ISIS. She denied his death through IS-linked Twitter accounts.[16][17]
Hussain and his wife regularly used their young son as a human shield to prevent drone attacks. On the occasion when he was killed, he had ventured out without the child.[18] It was reported that Hussain's location was discovered after he clicked on a compromised Internet link sent by an undercover agent on the Surespot messaging app. Jones later confirmed that Hussain had indeed been killed.[19]
Notes
- ^ Because of the international dateline, the date in Iraq time is different from the date in U.S. time. The Pentagon's report noted the drone strike occurred on 24 August while The New York Times reported the strike occurred on 25 August.
References
- ^ a b Russell Myers (13 January 2015). "British hacker suspected of cyber attack on US Central Command Twitter account". mirror.
- ^ a b RFSID. "Cyber Caliphate: ISIS Plays Offense on the Web". Recorded Future.
- ^ "DailyTech - Anonymous vs. the ISIS Cyber Caliphate -- War in the Middle East Goes Digital". dailytech.com. Archived from the original on 7 July 2017. Retrieved 14 May 2015.
- ^ Thomas Halleck (14 January 2015). "Junaid Hussain: CyberCaliphate Leader And ISIS Member Was Behind CENTCOM Hack, Report Says". International Business Times.
- ^ Emma Graham-Harrison (12 April 2015). "Could Isis's 'cyber caliphate' unleash a deadly attack on key targets?". The Guardian.
- ^ Jamie Dettmer (24 March 2015). "Digital jihad: ISIS, Al Qaeda seek a cyber caliphate to launch attacks on US". Fox News.
- ^ "ISIS is ramping up efforts to mount a massive cyber attack". Security Affairs. 14 September 2014.
- ^ Sam Biddle. "Investigators Think This UK ISIS Defector Is Behind the CENTCOM Hack". Weird Internet. Gawker Media. Archived from the original on 4 February 2016.
- ^ Tim Lister (7 May 2015). "Cheerleaders and freelancers: new actors in terrorism - CNN.com". CNN.
- ^ CBSNews. "ISIS hacker behind U.S. military "hit list" believed killed in Syria". News Agency.
- ^ a b Holly Yan (5 May 2015). "Who are the gunmen behind the Texas shooting?". CNN.
- Guardian News & Media Limited. Retrieved 29 January 2016.
- Times Newspapers Limited. Archived from the originalon 21 September 2015. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
- ^ "Junaid Hussain: How a Boy From Birmingham Became ISIS's Leading Hacker". Newsweek. 27 August 2015. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
- Guardian News & Media Limited. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
- ^ Meredith, Charlotte (28 August 2015). "The Islamic State's Top Hacker Was Killed in a US Drone Strike". Vice. Retrieved 29 August 2015.
- ^ "Sally Jones". Counter Extremism Project. Retrieved 27 June 2019.
- ^ Cockburn, Harry (12 October 2017). "Sally Jones: Who was the 'White Widow'? What we know about the Isis member reportedly killed in a US drone strike". The Independent. Retrieved 22 July 2018.
- Birmingham Live. Reach plc. Retrieved 27 June 2019.