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FBI director says Al Qaeda is getting more sophisticated and warns of domestic hackers.
When addressing the cyber threat looming over America’s security establishment, Mueller mentioned the growing technical expertise of groups like Al Qaeda and Somalia’s Harakat Al Shabaab as part of an online threat against the United States. Other parts of that threat include acts of digital espionage by foreign powers as well as “organized criminal syndicates.”
“…we confront hacktivists, organized criminal syndicates, hostile foreign nations that seek our state secrets and our trade secrets, and mercenaries willing to hack for the right price,” he said.
