National
May 24, 2022

While terrorists all over the globe are using advanced technologies and cyber tools to destroy the countries and their citizens, the anti-terror group of New Delhi has proposed holding a meeting of the Security Council’s Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC) in India to consider ways to tackle the danger comprehensively.
Today’s advanced terrorists not only use weapons, guns and bombs but are also active in emerging digital technologies, from cryptocurrencies and NFTs to 3D printing and artificial intelligence.
Announcing the proposal on Monday at the Council, India’s Permanent Representative T.S. Tirumurti, who is the chair of the CTC, said: “The need for member states to comprehensively address and tackle the implications of terrorist exploitation of the digital technologies more strategically has never been direr.”
The meeting “will exclusively focus on this issue and attempt to provide the way forward” in facing the challenges from terrorists adopting new financial technologies to raise and transfer funds and using artificial intelligence and 3D printing for attacks, he said.
“The inter-connected nature of the digital domain requires that solutions to the complex problems and threats emanating from this domain cannot be resolved in isolation.
“There is an underlying need to adopt a collaborative rules-based approach and work towards ensuring its openness, stability and security,” Tirumurti added.