British intelligence operatives hacked into an English-language al-Qaeda online magazine and replaced an article on bomb-making instructions with garbled code from a recipe book for cupcakes,The Daily Telegraphreports.
The operation last June was aimed at disrupting efforts by the terrorist organization to recruit new followers with Inspire, its slick, 62-page color publication.
The Telegraph say that when anyone tried to download the magazine, instead of getting instructions in an article on How to Make a Bomb In Kitchen of Your Mom, readers instead got garbled computer code of a Web page of recipes for The Best Cupcakes in America published by the Ellen DeGeneres talk show.
The recipes included one for Mojito cupcakes, featuring white rum cake and covered in vanilla buttercake, and one for the Rocky Road Cupcake that adds, “warning: sugar rush ahead!”
The cyberattack also removed articles by Osama bin Laden, his deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri and a piece called What to expect in Jihad, the newspaper says.
Initially, British and U.S. intelligence planned to mount separate hacking operations, but the Americans withdrew out of concern by the CIA that it would expose sources and methods and disrupt an important source of intelligence, The Washington Post reports.
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