Hacking ISIS: How to Destroy the Cyber Jihad

by Malcolm W. Nance, Christopher Sampson

This book is written by two of the leading terrorist experts in the world - Malcolm Nance, NBC News and MSNBC terrorism analyst and New York Times bestselling author of Defeating ISIS and the forthcoming Hacking ISIS , and Christopher Sampson, cyber-terrorist expert. Malcolm Nance is a 35 year practitioner in Middle East Special Operations and terrorism intelligence activities. Chris Sampson is the terrorism media and cyber warfare expert for the Terror Asymmetric Project and has spent 15 years collecting and exploiting terrorism media. For two years, their Terror Asymmetrics Project has been attacking and exploiting intelligence found on ISIS Dark Web operations.

Hacking ISIS will explain and illustrate in graphic detail how ISIS produces religious cultism, recruits vulnerable young people of all religions and nationalities and disseminates their brutal social media to the world.
More, the book will map out the cyberspace level tactics on how ISIS spreads its terrifying content, how it distributes tens of thousands of pieces of propaganda daily and is winning the battle in Cyberspace and how to stop it in its tracks.

Hacking ISIS is uniquely positioned to give an insider’s view into how this group spreads its ideology and brainwashes tens of thousands of followers to join the cult that is the Islamic State and how average computer users can engage in the removal of ISIS from the internet.

Genres: Nonfiction, Terrorism, History

320 pages, Hardcover

First published April 25, 2017

About the author

Malcolm Nance is a globally recognized counter-terrorism expert and Intelligence Community member who has been deployed to intelligence operations in the Balkans, Middle East, and sub-Saharan Africa.

He is the author of several best-selling counter-terrorism and intelligence books, including The Plot to Hack America, Defeating ISIS: Who They Are, How They Fight, What They Believe, and The Plot to Destroy Democracy.

Reviews

[Kevinw88 · Rating 2 out of 5]

As someone who is familiar with technology mentioned in the book (anonymous, tor, dark web, encryption) there wasn't much new here. If you're into technology and you keep up with the news then many of the concepts will be familiar. The book was more of a history of ISIS, and the mediums and messages they use for communicating, which is not what I expected from a title called "Hacking ISIS".

If you're unfamiliar with the terms above then this book may be better suited for you.

[Gerry Sacco · Rating 3 out of 5]

Sometimes intriguing, sometimes a huge info dump.

I did find an interesting parallel between how they leverage social media, and what has happened here the past several years. The activation and radicalization of people looking for some kind of an out, isn't very dissimilar. I think Nance's exploration and breakdown of their outreach, should be brought to a lot of people's attention.

[Chancellor Clay · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hacking ISIS provided a very in depth view into the world of cyberwarfare, ISIS' deep web communications, Twitter radicalization, as well as the vigilante fight against online terrorism. I would highly recommend this book to anyone with an interest in hacking, cybersecurity, or online vigilantism.

[David Mattingly · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very good book not only provides a view of ISIS presence but also gives the reader a view of the "black web"

[Terry · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting premise for "Solving" the current Islamic Jihadi problem disrupting and destabilizing the already chaotic ethnic-religious cauldron that is today's Middle East.

[عَبدُالكَرِيمْ · Rating 4 out of 5]

good but I didn't learn something too new or too exciting. Pretty boring at some point

[Md Aiman · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great read to know strategies extremist use