On Friday, December 1st, Threat Intelligence Academy will host Charity Wright, Principal Threat Intelligence Consultant at Recorded Future, in the Advanced Cyber Threat Seminar with a lecture and debate on attribution vs. narrative in combatting information operations.
About The Debate
We will discuss the challenges of attribution in influence operations analysis, especially those campaigns on social media platforms. What changes will we see in Influence Operations over the next 5 to 10 years? What technologies might become obsolete? What new technological threats will we face in the future that could impact influence operations and audiences specifically? Should we continue analyzing IO the way we do today? What can we do to prepare for and defend against future IO?
About Charity
Charity Wright is a Principal Threat Intelligence Consultant at Recorded Future. Charity has over 17 years of experience in the US intelligence community, including a career in the US Army and the National Security Agency (NSA), where she served as a Chinese Linguist (35P) and Intelligence Analyst (35N). She has analyzed cyber threats in the private sector since 2015, focusing on Chinese state-sponsored threats, cybercrime, malign influence operations, and strategic intelligence. Charity has consulted on espionage and intelligence topics on C-SPAN, Bloomberg, NBC, CBS, and many more media outlets worldwide.
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Resources
To prepare for the lecture, we recommend familiarizing yourself with the following selected resources from the Cyber Learning Library:
Frameworks for analyzing influence operations:
SCOTCH Framework
DISARM Framework
The Kill Chain for Influence Operations
The Diamond Model for Influence Operations Analysis
Attribution in IO:
Bellingcat Video
Microsoft White Paper
Examples of IO campaigns that may be useful in this lecture:
Graphika: Spamouflage Dragon
Google: Dragonbridge
Recorded Future: Empire Dragon
Recorded Future: Maui Wildfire Influence Operations
Recorded Future: JokerDPR and the Information War
The Future of IO:
Stanford Internet Observatory: Generative Language Models and Automated Influence Operations: Emerging Threats and Potential Mitigations
