Operation Cupcake: British Spies Hack Al-Qaeda’s Magazine to Replace Bombs With Cupcakes

Molotov cocktails? More like mojito cupcakes.  In a cyber-warfare operation, British spies successfully hacked al-Qaeda’s English language magazine, Inspire, and replaced bombmaking instructions with a list of cupcakes. Victory has never tasted so sweet. (MORE: The New Pentagon Cyber-Strategy) The magazine is published quarterly and distributed as a pdf file. But as a result of

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Operation Cupcake: British Spies Hack Al-Qaeda’s Magazine to Replace Bombs With Cupcakes

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