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CTED hosts Insight Briefing on “Latest trends in the use of cryptocurrency by terrorist groups and their supporters”

On 4 March 2024, CTED hosted an important discussion on the latest trends and shifts in the use of different types of virtual assets by terrorist groups affiliated with Da’esh (ISIL) / Al-Qaida and their supporters, including for their fundraising campaigns. The briefing offered Member States practical insights into how virtual assets are used for terrorism financing purposes, and how related technologies, including blockchain analytics, can help detect and suppress such abuses.

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CTC special meeting 2022

The special meeting of the United Nations Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee on “Countering the use of new and emerging technologies for terrorist purposes” will be held in India on 28-29 October 2022. The theme focuses on three areas where emerging technologies are experiencing rapid development and increasing threat of abuse for terrorist purposes: terrorism financing; unmanned aerial systems (UAS); and the Internet and social media. Click here for more information.

Civil society perspectives: ISIL in Africa - Key trends and developments

A growing number of ISIL-affiliated groups in Africa have shown an ability to launch deadly and coordinated attacks, capture strategic territories, recruit followers using anti-Government propaganda, and conscript child soldiers. With the exception of attacks carried out by the Islamic State — Sinai Province and the Islamic State in Somalia (ISS), the frequency of ISIL attacks and the resulting casualties across the continent indicate that African States are facing an unprecedented terrorist threat.