gevron@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 9 May 2017 21:33:09 +0300
I'm extremely excited about what happened at the French elections. Up until
today, when it comes to information operations, I could only look up to
Russia. What (supposedly, we don't really know too much yet) in France
changes all that.
Add supposedly and likely to every sentence:
1. They seeded attack attempts with data that will slow them down.
Sending credentials to phishing attempts.
2. They created a few fake documents, which allowed them when the time
came to cast doubt on the entire data dump.
I wrote a full analysis based on what is currently known here, I hope you enjoy it: https://hackernoon.com/analyzing-a-counter-intelligence-cyber-operation-how-macron-just-changed-cyber-security-forever-22553abb038b
I am so excited a public case exists that shows thinking of the type I love and live. With cyberdeception they have essentially shown they can increase the economic costs of the attackers to shift the burden of anomaly detection to them. I've bet my career and life on starting Cymmetria to do this, and now -- finally, someone else is thinking the same way I do, and more than that, actively working on cyberdeception to control the battle ground and act dynamically.
Interesting side-note:
Late last year the various French political parties were summoned to a
government brief on phishing attacks. All but one came to the meeting.