The threat of cyber terrorism has created the image of a terrorist in a remote, isolated location inflicting major damage by penetrating security or economic systems via cyberspace, and this image has been made especially popular through the activity of the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA). With hackers targeting popular websites, SEA has brought the image to the fore of global threat perceptions. But when examining the cyber terrorism threat, it is necessary to scrutinize the actual capabilities of terrorist organizations like SEA in the cyber realm, to analyze whether there is indeed a substantive, powerful threat inherent in their cyber attacks.
