MOSCOW (Sputnik) — He added that the Islamic State's "murderous brutality has a strong digital element" and stressed that tackling their guns, bombs and knives means tackling their cyber threat as well.
"ISIL are already using the Internet for hideous propaganda purposes, for radicalization, for operational planning too, they have not so far been able to use it to kill people by attacking our infrastructure through cyber attack, they do not yet have that capability. But we know they want it and are we know doing their best to build it," Osborne said in a speech at Britain's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) intelligence agency.
The IS extremist group, which controls large areas of Syria and Iraq, is known for recruiting people from all over the world via social networks through which it spreads its radical ideology and urges young people to join the group.
