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Nel corso dell’ultimo anno, il Nihilistic Violent Extremism (NVE) si sta affermando come uno dei principali fenomeni di estremismo violento, tanto online quanto offline, articolandosi come una delle principali minacce alla sicurezza della società. Come evidenziatoRead More…
Martedì 11 febbraio, la polizia olandese ha arrestato 16 persone nei Paesi Bassi con l’accusa di diffondere propaganda dello Stato Islamico (IS), glorificare il martirio e incitare ad attacchi terroristici online, in particolare su TikTok. LeRead More…
La Fregola Artica sembra quasi una notazione ornitologica (piuttosto che un appunto gastronomico), invece sottolinea solo una certa eccitazione intorno all’Artico che caratterizza in particolare questi mesi. In realtà della terra dei ghiacci se ne parlaRead More…
INCIDENT
A few days ago, the UK authorities issued a notice highlighting Russian espionage efforts targeting NATO personnel hosted in a hotel located in the German city of Wiesbaden. The guesthouse is close to the NATO Security Assistance and Training for Ukraine (NSATU) headquarters at the US Army’s Clay Kaserne military base, which is a key hub for coordinating military support and logistics assisting Ukraine’s defense forces against Russia.
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On 16 December 2025, at a Russian school in the town of Odintsovo, near Moscow, Timofey Vladimirovich Kulyamov, a 15-year-old student, carried out a knife attack, killing a 10-year-old Tajik student. After some resistance, during which the attacker held another student hostage, Timofey was arrested by the authorities. The attack was livestreamed.
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Negli ultimi cinque anni i fenomeni di estremismo violento, terrorismo e aggressioni di varie tipologie sono profondamente cambiati adattandosi ad un contesto tecnologico e sociale che pone sempre più sfide alle singole persone.
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ITSTIME speeches at the VOX-Pol online seminar “Under the Radar: Understanding the Salafi-Jihadi terrorist online information ecosystem” (Part 3)
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ITSTIME speeches at the VOX-Pol online seminar “Under the Radar: Understanding the Salafi-Jihadi terrorist online information ecosystem” (Part 2)
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ITSTIME speeches at the VOX-Pol online seminar “Under the Radar: Understanding the Salafi-Jihadi terrorist online information ecosystem” (Part 1).
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From January 2025 to October 2025, G. L. Giardini and A. Bolpagni have been monitoring and analysing the presence of the pro-Islamic State (IS) ecosystem on TikTok, especially focusing on the dissemination of IS propaganda within the social network platform. Through day-by-day monitoring using Digital Human Intelligence (Digital HUMINT) techniques, more than 270 seed accounts have been identified. The latter, which are pro-IS accounts actively sharing propaganda material, have been functional to the reconstruction of a network characterised by more than 100,000 users.
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The study, published in Security Journal, focuses on the role played by search engines in accessing Salafi-jihadi terrorist content on the surface web and beyond. It argues that due to the very nature of the World Wide Web, search engines may be exploited as primary gateways to harmful content, allowing followers of Salafi-jihadi violent extremist groups to find and law enforcement to detect crucial communication channels maintained by terrorist organisations easily.
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