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The Counterterrorism Blind Spot: AI as a Radicalisation Environment
9+ hour, 56+ min ago (171+ words) From Instrument to Environment Five Mechanisms of Acceleration The five mechanisms below form a framework developed by the author. Some rest on directly documented properties of AI systems and human-computer interaction; others are analytic extensions of established radicalisation, behavioural threat…...
Innovation in AI-Enabled Harms: The Transference of AI Knowledge from Cybercriminals to Extremists
1+ mon, 1+ day ago (178+ words) AI Use Across Extremist Ecosystems Figure 1. Screenshot of the Freeman Bot website, marketed as an AI chatbot for sovereign citizens. Figure 2: Partial post of the tool being advertised on a prominent hacking forum. While violent extremists and cybercriminals often have…...
A Growing Global Threat: A Streamed Nihilistic Attack in Italy
2+ mon, 2+ day ago (412+ words) On 25 March, a 13-year-old student carried out a stabbing attack at his middle school in Trescore Balneario, near Bergamo, Italy. The attacker deliberately targeted his French language teacher, seriously injuring her, before being subdued by other school staff and later…...
Speed Over Safeguards? The e-Evidence Regulation and Counter-Terrorism Investigations
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (507+ words) The Regulation and Directive were negotiated for five years before the final text was published in the Official Journal on 28th of July 2023." This Insight will analyse the main features of this new legal framework, its relevance for terrorism investigations, and…...
The Designation of 764 Network: Why Does it Matter?
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (681+ words) In recent years, law enforcement agencies across the globe have been warning about online nihilist networks that exploit and manipulate minors. This fits in a broader trend in which a growing number of children are involved in violent extremist activities,…...
Silent Recruitment: Extremist Child Targeting on Messaging Platforms in Indonesia
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (440+ words) The Indonesian Digital Milieu: Why Whats App Matters Therefore, the combination of E2 EE features, closed-group structures, and trust-based social ties demonstrates that propaganda efforts are not confined to random broadcasts; radical terrorist groups also attempt to engage in relational development…...
Agentic Smurfing: How AI-Autonomous Micro-Laundering is Outpacing Traditional Terrorist Financing Detection
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (127+ words) From Mixers to Machines: The Tactical Evolution Figure 1. A screenshot of ISKP's newsletter requesting cryptocurrency contributions, illustrating the group's use of decentralised finance to move funds anonymously. The Detection Gap: Why Counter-Terrorism Finance Systems are Failing AI'driven micro'transaction clustering is…...