LulzSec Member Reveals More Details About GCHQ Covert Operations

Mustafa Al-Bassam, aka tFlow, co-founder of the LulzSec hacking crew, published today more details about how the GCHQ used the covert Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group (JTRIG) to attack hacktivism crews, but also that they tried to influence elections in Iran and boost and help the Arab Spring uprising in Syria.

His report is based on a first-hand experience, as part of the LulzSec crew attacked by JTRIG, on documents leaked by Edward Snowden in 2014, and on his own research on the subject, Al-Bassam making the jump from hacker to security consultant this past March.

JTRIG did more than just attack hacktivism groups

JTRIG's operations came to light in 2014, when The Intercept published a set of documents from the m...