Operation Cupcake : MI6 hacks al-Qaeda website !
Jun 04, 2011
As part of its cyber-warfare operations, British spy agency MI6 has hacked into an al-Qaeda online magazine and replaced '' bomb-making '' instructions with a recipe for cupcakes, a media report said. The operation was launched by MI6 in an attempt to disrupt efforts by al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsular to recruit " lone-wolf " terrorists with a new English-language magazine, 'The Daily Telegraph' reported. When followers tried to download the 67-page colour magazine, instead of instructions about how to " Make a bomb in the Kitchen of your Mom " by " The AQ Chef ", they were greeted with garbled computer code. The code, which had been inserted into the original magazine by the British intelligence hackers, was actually a web page of recipes for "The Best Cupcakes in America" published by the Ellen DeGeneres chat show. It said: " The little cupcake is big again. Self- contained and satisfying, it summons memo...