The Hunt: Spy agency went after ISIS using cyber — what does that mean?

WASHINGTON — GCHQ, a British spy agency, said recently that it took the unprecedented step of launching a cyberattack against ISIS.

In this week’s edition of The Hunt with WTOP national security correspondent J.J. Green, Robin Simcox, the Margaret Thatcher Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, says this was a significant development.

Robin Simcox of the Heritage Foundation discusses the cyberattack on ISIS
J.J. Green

JJ Green is WTOP's National Security Correspondent. He reports daily on security, intelligence, foreign policy, terrorism and cyber developments, and provides regular on-air and online analysis. He is also the host of two podcasts: Target USA and Colors: A Dialogue on Race in America.

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