3 ISIS Members Slapped With Sanctions From US Treasury

New sanctions aim to disrupt their cyber and financial operations.

The US Department of the Treasurys Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Jan. 30 named three individuals associated with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) to its Sanctions List.
Mu’min Al-Mawji Mahmud Salim and Sarah Jamal Muhammad Al-Sayyid — Egyptian nationals — are together responsible for establishing the Electronic Horizons Foundation (EHF). The innocuously named platform provides cybersecurity guidance and training to help ISIS members evade law enforcements prying eyes online.
In addition to founding EHF, as outlined in OFACs
official press release
, Al-Mawji founded an ISIS-affiliated media outlet for creating and spreading propaganda. He also played the office IT guy to ISIS leadership and provided his expertise in the domain of cryptocurrencies by, for example, publishing a tutorial on EHFs website with instructions on how to use them to donate to the organization.
Al-Sayyid

collaborated with Al-Mawji on EHFs cryptocurrency and logistical management efforts. She also recruited ISIS members to join EHF and solicited Web servers for hosting ISIS platforms.
OFAC also named and shamed a third ISIS collaborator, Faruk Guzel, from Turkey. He appears to have helped the organization with money transfers, receiving remittances from ISIS supporters and passing them on to members based in Syria.
Coupling cyber and physical has become more common in modern warfare, says Padraic OReilly, founder and chief innovation officer at CyberSaint. And though far away in second place behind its kinetic actions, ISIS has always been able to cause a certain degree of noise online.
It is well known that they are not the most sophisticated group out there, but they have had some success at disruption, OReilly says. ISIS generally hacks for propagandistic purposes. They have
defaced websites, hacked Twitter
, and had some success posting messages on French and Swedish media outlets.
Just as in the kinetic sphere, however, ISISs online reach has slowed since its peak in the mid-2010s. OFAC, as with
prior interventions from the US
and
other governments before it
, will only serve to slow the group further.
This will likely disrupt some of the current channels used by ISIS, but they will likely find new avenues, so this will be an ongoing process, OReilly says. These tools are effective, but the landscape is always shifting.

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