Isis Social Media

Taylor Swift fans turned to social media on Thursday, grappling with sorrow, anger, and disbelief after the singer's three Vienna concerts were abruptly cancelled following the Austrian government's confirmation of a planned attack at the venue.

Amid the ongoing unrest in Bangladesh, reports have emerged of false narratives being created through social media to fuel anti-India sentiments among the people.

A video apparently shot by gunmen who carried out the deadly attack on a Moscow concert hall has been posted on social media accounts typically used by the jihadist group Islamic State (IS), according to the SITE Intelligence Group.

An employee of the Indian embassy in Moscow, arrested recently in Uttar Pradesh for allegedly spying for Pakistan's ISI, was honey-trapped by a woman who befriended him on social media, the UP Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) has said.

Sharing a picture of the barbaric killings carried out by the Hamas group, Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday, in a post on social media platform X, said that Hamas is worse than ISIS.

Twitter was accused in the US Supreme Court Wednesday of closing its eyes to the ISIS group as judges struggled to determine whether social media sites could be held liable for acts of terror.

A contractual employee of the Defence Research and Development Laboratory in Hyderabad, was arrested for allegedly sharing confidential information about the DRDL-RCI Complex through social media to a suspected ISI female handler, police said.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) said once a person shows interest he or she is then enticed to communicate with online handlers based abroad using encrypted social media platforms.

Two women were taken into custody on Tuesday by the officials of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in Kerala's Kannur for allegedly propagating ideology of terror group ISIS through social media, the police said.

A special National Investigation Agency court in Delhi on Friday sentenced an ISIS terrorist to seven years of rigorous imprisonment for conspiring to establish the proscribed organisation's base in India by radicalising and recruiting youths through social media platforms. Imran Khan Pathan was convicted by the NIA Special Court, Patiala House.

A Delhi court on Friday convicted nine operatives of Islamic terror outfit ISIS for hatching a criminal conspiracy to establish its base in India by recruiting Muslim youths through different social media platforms to carry out acts of terrorism in the country.

A couple from Kashmir, accused of links with the ISIS unit from Afghanistan's Khorasan province, has been detained by the police from south Delhi, police sources said. Sources said they were planning a suicide attack in Delhi.

Pakistan's government and its spy agency ISI have started snooping on its own people. Threats, arrests, blocked accounts and restricted posts -- Big Brother is watching more closely than ever across Pakistan, as authorities accelerate efforts to censor social networks, further reducing an already shrunken space for dissent in Pakistan.

A soldier was allegedly found to be passing information to operatives of Pakistan spy agency ISI after being honey-trapped on social media, the Army confirmed today. He has been arrested by the Rajasthan police and produced in court.

Exploiting a decade-old flaw, hackers are taking control of dormant Twitter accounts to spread Islamic State (IS) propaganda, a media report said.

Taylor Swift fans turned to social media on Thursday, grappling with sorrow, anger, and disbelief after the singer's three Vienna concerts were abruptly cancelled following the Austrian government's confirmation of a planned attack at the venue.

Amid the ongoing unrest in Bangladesh, reports have emerged of false narratives being created through social media to fuel anti-India sentiments among the people.

A video apparently shot by gunmen who carried out the deadly attack on a Moscow concert hall has been posted on social media accounts typically used by the jihadist group Islamic State (IS), according to the SITE Intelligence Group.

An employee of the Indian embassy in Moscow, arrested recently in Uttar Pradesh for allegedly spying for Pakistan's ISI, was honey-trapped by a woman who befriended him on social media, the UP Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) has said.

Sharing a picture of the barbaric killings carried out by the Hamas group, Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday, in a post on social media platform X, said that Hamas is worse than ISIS.

Twitter was accused in the US Supreme Court Wednesday of closing its eyes to the ISIS group as judges struggled to determine whether social media sites could be held liable for acts of terror.

A contractual employee of the Defence Research and Development Laboratory in Hyderabad, was arrested for allegedly sharing confidential information about the DRDL-RCI Complex through social media to a suspected ISI female handler, police said.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) said once a person shows interest he or she is then enticed to communicate with online handlers based abroad using encrypted social media platforms.

Two women were taken into custody on Tuesday by the officials of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in Kerala's Kannur for allegedly propagating ideology of terror group ISIS through social media, the police said.

A special National Investigation Agency court in Delhi on Friday sentenced an ISIS terrorist to seven years of rigorous imprisonment for conspiring to establish the proscribed organisation's base in India by radicalising and recruiting youths through social media platforms. Imran Khan Pathan was convicted by the NIA Special Court, Patiala House.

A Delhi court on Friday convicted nine operatives of Islamic terror outfit ISIS for hatching a criminal conspiracy to establish its base in India by recruiting Muslim youths through different social media platforms to carry out acts of terrorism in the country.

A couple from Kashmir, accused of links with the ISIS unit from Afghanistan's Khorasan province, has been detained by the police from south Delhi, police sources said. Sources said they were planning a suicide attack in Delhi.

Pakistan's government and its spy agency ISI have started snooping on its own people. Threats, arrests, blocked accounts and restricted posts -- Big Brother is watching more closely than ever across Pakistan, as authorities accelerate efforts to censor social networks, further reducing an already shrunken space for dissent in Pakistan.

A soldier was allegedly found to be passing information to operatives of Pakistan spy agency ISI after being honey-trapped on social media, the Army confirmed today. He has been arrested by the Rajasthan police and produced in court.

Exploiting a decade-old flaw, hackers are taking control of dormant Twitter accounts to spread Islamic State (IS) propaganda, a media report said.