IS, Indian Mujahideen use wikisendfor sharing of files

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Terror suspects are using the website wikisend for file sharing and are using encrypted messages to avoid surveillance.

Terror suspects are using the website wikisend for file sharing and are using encrypted messages to avoid surveillance.

Top cyber experts of the country say that terror organisations have their own Web browsers and they use them to avoid detection. IS and the Indian Mujahideen use advanced encrypted technologies, say experts. The NIA chargesheet in the Dilsukhnagar twin blast case has revealed how the IM accused had operated using encrypted software and wikisend. Leading cyber forensic expert Mr Pendyala Krishna Shastry, who had earlier worked with the Government Examiner for Questioned Documents, said, “Terror suspects use their own web browsers. They are using the web to send encrypted messages.”

The National Investigation Agency in its chargesheet against the IM suspect in the Dilsukhnagar case said that accused Ajaz Shaikh had shared files through wikisend and had sent encrypted fake documents to Riyaz Bhatkal, another key accused in the case.

“Ajaz Shaikh prepared a fake ID with the photo of another accused, Tehseen Akhtar, and uploaded the same through wikisend with a password protection encrypted file” revealed investigators.

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