Merger of BlackOps Cyber and GhostSec Thwarts Brussels Terror Attack

  SAN FRANCISCO, CA - 10/19/2016 (PRESS RELEASE JET)

GhostSec, formerly part of the Anonymous collective, has merged with an established intelligence agency. GhostSec has been instrumental in helping authorities around the world to prevent terror attacks and locate persons of interest connected to terrorism and cybercrime.

On September 22, a terror plot against Université libre de Bruxelles, in Belgium, was thwarted due to intel uncovered by GhostSec, an online counterterrorism unit which has been instrumental in thwarting terror attacks in the past. GhostSec recently merged with BlackOps Cyber (BOC), an intel agency which provides a wide range of services including intel collection, darknet operations, threat analysis, monitoring of threat actors and counterterrorism services.

The threat emanated from a jihadist account on Twitter. According to BOC, the threats were discovered in a series of tweets and revealed an imminent plan to carry out an attack on the university in Brussels. From prior intel collected, BOC operatives knew Brussels had a high probability of being attacked again, as the city is often mentioned in jihadist communications.

Prior to last month’s attacks in New York and New Jersey, this particular Twitter account was openly tweeting the easily located and legally purchased components of canister and pipe bombs. The tweets also indicated the bombing would be in retaliation for the US-led coalition bombing of the University of Mosul.  

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BlackOps Cyber, affiliated with BlackOps Partners, is a leading developer and provider of special technical intelligence services, lawful intercept monitoring and surveillance capabilities, offensive and defensive cyber capabilities, managed security services, intelligence analysis, and rigorous operational training and subject matter expertise support to corporate security, militaries, federal, state, and local governments, and other government agencies.

For more information on the thwarted attack and/or the merger of GhostSec with BlackOps Cyber please contact us: gayleamurray@protonmail.com or team@blackopscyber.com