@leefosterintel
AI Security / Cyber Threat Intel / Disinformation / Influence Operations. Founder aspectlabs.ai, Adjunct at Johns Hopkins SAIS Alperovitch Institute for Cybersecurity Studies, formerly Director of Influence Ops Analysis at Mandiant. All views my own etc.
CYBERWARCON is coming!!! Registration and CFP are now open for this year's #CYBERWARCON! This year's keynote speaker will be @dmitri.silverado.org!!
We are back in Arlington, VA this year on November 19th.
www.cyberwarcon.com
Turns out that when using end to end encryption it’s very important to know who is the end
New phone, Houthis
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📣 Oops!... They did it again!!!
61 Talks submitted and so many too good that, once again, we had to increase a bit the number of accepted talks.🔥
#PIVOTcon25 Agenda is finally here, and the caliber is insane!!! Check it out➡️ pivotcon.org/agenda-2025/
#CTI #ThreatIntel
Talks and presenters in🧵⬇️ 1/18
This satirical deepfake of Zelensky begging for US aid and admitting to being a corrupt drug addict is going around.
A deepfake-for-hire group made it. It has 3.6M views on TikTok, and big pro-Kremlin influencers like Aussie Cossack have shared it. It's a joke. It's also a way to launder disinfo.
Add me to the distro pls!
TIL I’m not your friend 😭
Vandals at Schmoocon
Watch it (looks like some episodes are on YT). It’s cheesy and low budget in all the right ways
Dang, this is an esoteric gif. Original Robin of Sherwood tv series!
The Spy and the Traitor
We desperately need a bookmark function here. How are people efficiently saving content?
I’ve had a few calls recently with some criminally ambitious founders.
“I want to use AI to do everything”
“we take a systems level approach to AI”
“AI is central to our design process”
And the truth is I am so exhausted.
Where did this boundless optimism come from?
Another excellent Vertex workshop. Be sure to join next year!
(Hat tip to ChatGPT for Spanish translations of all my slides)
I then finished with some practical steps on how to responsibly report on IO without advancing threat actor agendas.
The talk is packaged and ready to go, so if any other media friends/partners would be interested in hearing it, shoot me a message!
I covered how journalists are targeted as dissemination vectors for influence campaigns, how journalists themselves unintentionally amplify IO narratives, and the importance of nuanced, responsible reporting around the future of generative AI use in influence operations
This morning I had the pleasure of presenting to a closed group of Guatemalan journalists and government representatives at Universidad del Valle de Guatemala on responsible reporting around foreign influence operations
Oh, I already finished then :(
You won't want to miss this conversation with Maureen Hinman on Trade, Critical Supply & Geopolitical Competition!
WHEN: Monday, Nov 18 | 5 - 6:30PM
WHERE: JHU Bloomberg Center, 555 Penn, the Link (Room 426)
RSVP 👉 forms.gle/L224Q2qNCXfU...
Frm @ridt.bsky.social @gavinwilde.bsky.social and @leefosterintel.bsky.social in @foreignaffairs.bsky.social: when we exaggerate the efficacy and impact of foreign influence ops, the ones who benefit the most are the very threat actors that are behind these ops www.foreignaffairs.com/russian-fede...
“When officials exaggerate the efficacy and impact of foreign propaganda, the ones who benefit the most are the very regimes that produce it,” write @olgs7.bsky.social, @leefosterintel.bsky.social, @ridt.bsky.social, and @gavinwilde.bsky.social.
For anyone interested in the world of generative AI detection in the info ops domain, I wrote up a brief overview of a project I recently completed: Building (and Testing) Classifiers for the Detection of Artificially Generated Text www.linkedin.com/pulse/buildi...?
Excited to be speaking at this year's Mandiant mWISE Conference on the Implications of Generative AI for Cyber-Enabled Influence Operations. This will be a balanced talk discussing not only threats, but also actor constraints/limitations (not a FUD-fest!) https://mwise.mandiant.com/conf23/sessions
Full agenda can be found here: https://cyberinitiativesgroup.com/copy-of-summer-summit-2022 and registration form is here https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/1641585585839343964. Hope to see you there!
Event Alert: Cyber Initiatives Group Summer Summit Tomorrow (June 28), CIG is holding its Summer Summit, full of panels on the latest in cybersecurity. Looking forward to speaking on the impact of cyber-propelled disinfo alongside Glenn Gerstell and Paul Lekas. Event is free and open to the public
