Cyberspace has been used to recruit, fund, coordinate, and execute terrorism for well over a decade now, however the threat posed by Virtual Terrorism (VT) has never been greater, nor has its potential to launch attacks through strokes on a keyboard. Prior to the birth of the Islamic State (IS), Al Qaeda had already called upon its adherents to wage ‘electronic jihad’ through ‘covert mujahideen’ to launch cyber-attacks on the West’s governments and infrastructure. Five years ago, the gap between terrorists’ intentions and capabilities was already closing. Today, there is relatively little preventing VT from becoming an even more serious threat.
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A picture taken on Oct. 17, 2016 shows an employee walking behind a glass wall with machine coding symbols at the headquarters of Internet security giant Kaspersky in Moscow.
