Collaborate Disseminate
Yup. A new information operation – this time, from our Cyber Command, turning their attention to The Rus, and their own opweratives.
via Julian E. Barnes, writing at the venerable New York Times, comes this piece, ostensibly discussing a sanctioned mi… Continue reading Cybering the Rus
Dear blog readers I wanted to let everyone know that I will be shortly joining Team Astalavista – The World’s Most Popular Information Security Portal acting a Managing Director following a successful career as Managing Director through 2003-2006 where… Continue reading Joining Team Astalavista – Stay Tuned!
Dear blog readers it’s been several years since I last posted a quality update following my 2010 disappearance. As it’s been quite a significant period of time since I last posted a quality update I feel it’s about time I post an quality update by deta… Continue reading HIstorical OSINT – Malicious Economies of Scale – The Emergence of Efficient Platforms for Exploitation – 2007
Elena Alekseevna Khusyaynova was part of a wide-ranging project to influence the 2016 and 2018 election on social media. Continue reading Russian Woman Charged With Influencing US Elections on Social Media
American social media companies simply weren’t prepared for what hit them in 2016: a barrage of accounts spewing disinformation in an unrelenting influence operation against the U.S. presidential election. It was a subversion of Silicon Valley’s altruistic intent, a turning of America’s digital openness against itself. It was, as Peter Singer and Emerson Brooking explain in their eponymously titled book, “like-war.” “If cyberwar is the hacking of the networks, ‘like-war’ is the hacking of the people on the networks by driving ideas viral through likes and lies,” Singer said in an interview. While the Russian campaign to interfere in U.S. democracy involved plenty of hacking, “it was the ‘like-war’ side, the influence operation side, that gave it its impact,” he added. Tech companies may have been ready to defend their networks from hacking, but they were blindsided by the disinformation offensive, according to Singer, a senior fellow at New America, a […]
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Dear blog readers, I wanted to let everyone know that I will be shortly resuming my Twitter account therefore consider following me.
Meanwhile – you can also grab an offline copy of my old Twitter account circa 2010-2014 where I’m proud to have part… Continue reading Are you on Twitter?
Terrific post at War On The Rocks, with an intriguing theory: The Best Strategy for Cyber-Conflict May Not Be A Cyber-Strategy, via Benjamin Runkle, . There’s that pesky ‘Cyber’ thing again… At any rate, the discussion in this case, revolves aroun… Continue reading The Best Strategy for Cyber-Conflict May Not Be a Cyber-Strategy
via The Daily Beast’s Spencer Ackerman and Kevin Poulsen, comes the tale of Guccifer 2.0, an officer of the GRU, Russia’s Main Intelligence Directorate (also known as, the Russian Military Intelligence Directorate); and, of course, there’s this… Continue reading GRU’d
A sloppy mistake linked Guccifer 2.0 to Russian military intelligence officers, according to a new report. But this was hardly the only mistake the hacker made in his months-long existence. Continue reading Guccifer 2.0 Was Always Sloppy
Russian operatives were able to obfuscate their activities in 2016 by stealing the identities of U.S. citizens, renting servers based in the U.S. and using a VPN all while posting targeted propaganda on social media to disrupt American politics, according to a new and lengthy criminal case against multiple Russian nationals. The Justice Department on Friday released an indictment against 13 Russian individuals and three Russian companies accused of violating federal U.S. criminal law to interfere with the 2016 U.S. presidential election. The defendants are charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States, wire fraud and identity theft. Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference released the detailed charges Friday, accusing a long list of Russians of supporting Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and working against Hillary Clinton’s candidacy. A recent leak of Julian Assange’s personal messages showed WikiLeaks pushing for the same goal. “The defendants waged what they called ‘information warfare against the […]
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