Wave Your False Flags!
Deception Tactics Muddying Attribution in Targeted Attacks
–featuring Brian Bartholomeow.
Read the Paper
A timely discussion of the artifacts used to cobble together attribution and the ways in which threat actors are manipulating those indicators to throw us off their trail. The paper was written months before the ‘summer of Sofacy’ and provides an adequate conceptual framework to discuss realistic partial false flag operations.
Watch the Updated Talk
An updated rendition of this talk now, with added emphasis on Sofacy’s (Fancy Bear / STRONTIUM / Sednit / Pawn Storm) audacious summer tactics.
Watch the Original Talk
The original VirusBulletin 2016 talk.