Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2016-02-29 00:00:00
Affected organization: Islamic State
Affected country: Undetermined
Industry: Other Services (except Public Administration)
Event type: Disruptive
Event subtype: Message Manipulation,Internal Denial of Service
Motive: Sabotage
Actor: US Cyber Command
Actor type: Nation-State
Actor country: United States of America
Description: The US Secretary of Defense Ash Carter reveals that the US military is currently waging a cyber-offensive to "interrupt [and] disrupt ISIL's command and control, to cause them to lose confidence in their networks, to overload their network so that they can't function, and do all of these things that will interrupt their ability to command and control forces there, control the population and the economy."