Hybrid warfare: Lone-wolf attacks ordered via WhatsApp or Facebook, German spy chief says

‘Lone-wolf terrorist attacks in Europe are ordered and orchestrated through social media platforms like Facebook or WhatsApp, which creates a type of “hybrid warfare,” chief of German domestic intelligence believes.
Hans-Georg Maassen, head of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, said that potential attackers presumably receive orders from foreign terrorist leaders through encrypted instant messaging systems.
The details of what he described as “hybrid warfare” were disclosed at a press conference in Berlin on Wednesday, according to Deutsche Welle. Attacks are ordered through social media or messengers such as Facebook, WhatsApp and Telegram, while “perpetrators themselves are safe and not recognized.”’
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