Collaborate Disseminate
One and a half year old video – yet highly relevant to blue and red teamers. – mh
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Will 2018 be a year without conflict? Not likely. Will we see information warfare in 2018? Most definitely. Indeed, the possibility of information warfare being the impetus for a nation’s kinetic response is just as real as ever, if not more so. Gen. K… Continue reading Information Warfare: The Year Ahead
A Twitter account tied to a group that the Defense Intelligence Agency recently described as “Russian hackers … supporting Russia’s military operations” returned to the spotlight Wednesday by posting a message that alleges multiple Ukrainian government officials are “sponsored” by Hillary Clinton. These allegations, a vague and loosely defined set of financial connections documented only in a single graphic, could not be confirmed. No other supporting documents were provided. An attempt to contact the group went unanswered. Украинцы спонсировали Хиллари Клинтон за счет кредитов от МВФhttps://t.co/qTMAF0hLud#КиберБеркут #США #Украина pic.twitter.com/4nP3cZYjTL — КиберБеркут (@cyberberkut2) July 12, 2017 The Tweet posted Wednesday by this “CyberBerkut” group is the first such message posted publicly since January after the account shared an image of a redacted email it claims revealed plans by the U.S. government to doctor evidence to suggest that Russian hackers had interfered in the 2016 U.S. election. США планируют сфабриковать доказательства причастности […]
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Investigators find evidence attackers tried to modify voter data, reports Bloomberg. Continue reading Russia struck at election systems and data of 39 US states
In late 2015, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper famously warned of a future where adversaries will often “change or manipulate electronic information in order to compromise its integrity” rather than simply steal data. Since then, the world has watched the Kremlin carry out Clapper’s prediction, interfering in democratic processes around the world. A new report released Thursday, authored by the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs, shows how Russia has made Clapper’s prediction a reality. The research gives a new view on how hackers with suspected ties to the Russian government play a vital part in international disinformation campaigns aimed to discredit enemies of the state and sow discord. The report, “Tainted Leaks: Disinformation and Phishing With a Russian Nexus,” underscores how offensive cybersecurity operations have become a critical tool used by governments to weaponize information and affect public opinion. Hackers acting in […]
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In the fight against Russian misinformation campaigns, U.S. diplomats are hamstrung by outdated laws and rules, and they are technologically ill-equipped for battle, a State Department advisory panel was told Tuesday. “We’re sending our [information] soldiers into battle without weapons, essentially … It’s simply unacceptable,” former senior State Department official Tom Cochran told the U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy, which published a report on the future of U.S. efforts abroad to combat technologically and hacking-enabled information operations like the one against the 2016 presidential election. Copies of “Can Public Diplomacy Survive the Internet? – Bots, Echo Chambers and Disinformation,” were distributed at the meeting and digitally afterwards, but the report was still unavailable on the State Department website as of early Tuesday evening. “There’s a lot that we should be able to do [with technology] … in a very white hat kind of way that we can’t … because we’re governed by a […]
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At least $100 million in funding specifically to counter Russian information operations will be available under a newly unveiled spending bill to keep the U.S. government running until the end of September. Dubbed the “Countering Russian Influence Fund,” the new initiative is designed to provide support to “civil society organizations and other entities” based in Europe, Eurasia and Central Asia. The inclusion of the provision comes just one day after President Trump once again downplayed the impact of Russian information operations on the 2016 presidential election during a nationally televised interview with CBS News. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence published a historic, declassified report in January accusing Russian intelligence services of hacking into the Democratic National Committee and email mailbox of top political strategist John Podesta in an effort to leak confidential messages that would discredit Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. Congress must send the spending bill to Trump for his signature […]
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More than six months after its founder first claimed that digital propaganda on social media had no discernible impact on the U.S. presidential election, Facebook publicly acknowledged such threats Thursday and announced plans to counter disinformation campaigns evident on the global social network. In a 13-page report released Thursday, Facebook outlined a series of sophisticated, well-funded and expansive campaigns it identified as being undertaken by governments and other organizations to spread misleading and sometimes false narratives to accomplish specific geopolitical goals. Facebook found that perpetrators often leveraged a complex network of fake accounts and amplification techniques to proliferate distinctive, time-sensitive messages to target audiences. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence, or ODNI, published a historic, declassified report in January accusing Russian intelligence services of hacking into the Democratic National Committee and using damaging internal documents to specifically discredit democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Leaked communications were widely circulated on social […]
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More than six months after its founder first claimed that digital propaganda on social media had no discernible impact on the U.S. presidential election, Facebook publicly acknowledged such threats Thursday and announced plans to counter disinformation campaigns evident on the global social network. In a 13-page report released Thursday, Facebook outlined a series of sophisticated, well-funded and expansive campaigns it identified as being undertaken by governments and other organizations to spread misleading and sometimes false narratives to accomplish specific geopolitical goals. Facebook found that perpetrators often leveraged a complex network of fake accounts and amplification techniques to proliferate distinctive, time-sensitive messages to target audiences. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence, or ODNI, published a historic, declassified report in January accusing Russian intelligence services of hacking into the Democratic National Committee and using damaging internal documents to specifically discredit democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Leaked communications were widely circulated on social […]
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When U.S. officials realized last year that Russian intelligence services’ hacking into the IT systems of the Democratic National Committee was just one part of a full-featured information warfare operation, they faced a number of immediate problems, a former White House insider said Wednesday. James Clapper, who was director of national intelligence under President Barack Obama, said the first dilemma was well-understood: how to warn the American people about the Russian effort to meddle with the election without appearing to put a thumb on the scale. There was a second and much less well-understood problem, though: how to fight back. “We don’t really have a good way to respond” to the efforts like those that were designed to damage Democratic candidate Hilary Clinton, Clapper said at Gigamon’s Public Sector Cybersecurity Summit. The information warfare created fake news as well as the real thing — like the stories that came out of the documents dumped from the DNC hack. […]
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