CAMOSINT operations rely on gaining and maintaining access to various social media platforms and other online spaces. Accordingly, proper MA practices are a key enabling factor for such operations. Even minor technical or behavioral missteps can unravel a CAMOSINT operation, and that’s what appeared to happen to the BS bloggers.
The dark web is in decline. Once the preferred means for anonymizing users’ online activity, the dark web has now been supplanted by encrypted mobile applications and alternate solutions. Similarly, aggressive law enforcement actions have shuttered many of the dark web’s largest forums, making it a much more fleeting and...
The consequence of employing poor managed attribution practices is exposure—exposure of your online activities, your professional affiliation, and, potentially your true identity.
As nationwide stay-at-home orders extend further into the spring, we’ve all had the extent of our creativity and adaptability tested. We’ve attended virtual happy hours (let’s be honest, not as fun as they were in March), whipped our coffee (tastes fine; worth the Instagram post), and baked bread (both sourdough and banana, not bragging). At this point, it’s clear that there are few...
So what is a bot? Bots are programs that are designed to engage on social media platforms, often leveraging the platform’s API infrastructure, without requiring human intervention.
Law enforcement is able to obtain much of the information they need to connect suspects to their crimes by analyzing activity on various social media platforms.
The Tor browser is not impenetrable, nor is it as secure as many presume. It does provide access to hidden service sites, thereby making it a conduit to the dark web.
How Social Media Platforms are Addressing Synthetic and Manipulated Images
How can social media platforms verify that their users are who they say they are? This question has become paramount for Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and other platforms as instances of coordinated inauthentic behavior and CAMOSINT operations have become more prevalent.
With just a name and an email address, an open source analyst can likely discover the hometown, employer, and alma mater of most individuals with a smartphone.
