Honorary Guild Master Rhett Greenhagen talks to us about how cyber espionage is both a small and large playing field. There is a limited number of highly specialized Intelligence operatives and an abundance of potential targets in both heterosexual and homosexual sexualities that can be blackmailed. Everyone lies about sex. A foreign agent is more likely to be able to find information that can be exploited in order to compromise an otherwise loyal individual. While conducting an investigation on multiple mobile dating applications, we found large numbers of false identities in the areas surrounding classified locations including military bases where intelligence agencies, brigades, and law enforcement operations. We came across multiple suspect profiles that were attempting to authenticate the information we were feeding them to determine if we had access to sensitive information and to ascertain our real identities. By following the “Actionable Intelligence Lifecycle”, we were able to document, capture, and analyze patterns to help identify these false identities, both current and future. By developing criteria to detect false identities we were able to develop metrics and a reporting process to assist with countering their intelligence-gathering operations against the U.S. and allied nation personnel.
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HOW TO BE A GHOST- OPSEC FOR RESEARCHERS