This FBI agent says terrorists are plotting to wipe out the 911 emergency system in an attack 'only limited by your imagination'
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FBI agent Aristedes Mahairas.
The FBI has warned that terrorists are working to acquire the cyber skills to carry out catastrophic attacks that could involve taking down America's 911 emergency response system.
By way of an example, the FBI agent speculated on two horror scenarios:
Mahairas said terror groups may not currently have the capability to launch this kind of dual-pronged attack, but the FBI is working on the assumption that they one day could.
He continued: "It's really important to recognise that the terror groups are starting to leverage the technologies in such a way that it stands to reason that they are going to be able to recruit someone who is technically capable of spending time, effort, and energy to achieve that objective of eliminating the 911 emergency system..."My working proposition is that they will eventually have the capability because they will be able to successfully recruit somebody."Terrorists are also engaging hackers to help raise the money that actually carries out attacks, Mahairas said. "They need money, they need funds to pay their people, to feed them, to house them. If there's a lack of funding coming in then they may resolve to cybercriminal schemes," he added.
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