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An investigation into the FSB’s digital surveillance and disinformation contractor Key Takeaways Table of Contents Digital Revolution & 0DT On 18 March 2020, Russian hacktivist group Digital Revolution published leaked files obtained in April 2019 from 0Day Technologies LLC (OOO ЗИРОУДЭЙ ТЕХНОЛОДЖИС, AKA “0ДТ” or “0DT”), a private Russian company alleged to have developed digital…
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Investigate foreign agents yourself here: https://clementbriens.github.io/fara-graph/ View the code here: https://github.com/clementbriens/fara-graph Background On December 13th, 2021, Open Secrets published a report describing how China paid American consulting firm Vippi Media $300,000 to hire social media influencers to promote the 2022 Winter Olympics held in Beijing. The nonprofit was able to expose China’s influence operation…
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Introduction There has been a comprehensive amount of tooling designed to enable Twitter research by collecting Tweets using a variety of means. The following tools are often used by researchers: Twitter API (with a variety of native and third-party libraries for different languages, including the following Python libraries:) Python-twitter Twython Tweepy Twint SciencePo MediaLab’s Gazouilloire…
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In January 2021, I was able to publish a threat research piece for Orpheus Cyber, detailing a campaign by the Makop Ransomware-as-a-Service strain targeting South Korean entities. While this relatively unknown ransomware strain did not leverage significantly new or sophisticated TTPs, some of its capabilities were relatively uncommon. This includes the following: Custom file extensions…
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My previous blog post outlined a proposed Diamond Model of Disinformation for analytical pivoting between four features using observables: Victims, Mediums, Messages and Attackers. A blog post that outlines a theory without attempting to apply it in an operational context and demonstrate its analytical utility would serve little purpose. Let’s consider the 2017 Macron leaks…
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Applying cyber threat intelligence analysis to disinformation The detection and disruption of disinformation on social media is an emerging field in which investigators are slowly building, mapping and applying methodologies to transform what has been perceived as an investigative art into more of a defined practice. Many of these methodologies are borrowed from existing fields,…
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I was interviewed by Afiq Fitri for TechMonitor on the rise of watering hole attacks targeting news organisations and NGOs. You can find my quotes on behalf of Orpheus Cyber here: https://techmonitor.ai/technology/cybersecurity/politically-motivated-watering-hole-attacks-on-rise