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The Hunt: US coalition, ISIL gear up for big battles ahead

In this week’s edition of The Hunt, Navy Captain Jeff Davis, spokesman for the Defense Department, tells WTOP national security correspondent J.J. Green that the U.S. coalition and ISIL are both gearing up for some big battles in the coming weeks after the group lost one of its most important commanders in an airstrike this week.

FBI detects Iranian cyber criminals in US systems

WASHINGTON — The FBI has detected a group of hackers it believes are using dozens of IP addresses and hundreds of domains hosted in the United States to possibly attack enemies of the Iranian government. A Cyber Division Flash bulletin indicates “a group of malicious cyber actors — likely located in Iran — use Virtual Private Server infrastructure hosted in the United States to compromise government, corporate and academic computer networks based in the Middle East, Europe and the United States.”
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