PGI’s Digital Investigations Team brings you the Digital Threat Digest, SOCMINT and OSINT insights into disinformation, influence operations, and online harms. Big phish, same pond This newsletter traditionally focuses on disinformation, hate speech, electoral integrity, and conspiracy. But PGI is not only an intelligence company but a cybersecurity one too. Often, these two things overlap, and Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) are one example of this. APTs are sophisticated techniques designed to use continuous, clandestine TTPs (tools, techniques, and procedures) to gain access to systems and then remain inside them for a long time. Mandiant’s 2014 report into APT1 is a fascinating long read into how China’s Cyber Espionage Unit, PLA 61398, systemically stole hundreds of terabytes of data between 2006 and 2013 using a broad range of malware. The report even manages to geolocate the unit, estimating that the Shanghai building could hold more than 2,000 operatives.
Digital Threat Digest - 18 August 2022
Digital Threat Digest - 18 August 2022
Digital Threat Digest - 18 August 2022
PGI’s Digital Investigations Team brings you the Digital Threat Digest, SOCMINT and OSINT insights into disinformation, influence operations, and online harms. Big phish, same pond This newsletter traditionally focuses on disinformation, hate speech, electoral integrity, and conspiracy. But PGI is not only an intelligence company but a cybersecurity one too. Often, these two things overlap, and Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) are one example of this. APTs are sophisticated techniques designed to use continuous, clandestine TTPs (tools, techniques, and procedures) to gain access to systems and then remain inside them for a long time. Mandiant’s 2014 report into APT1 is a fascinating long read into how China’s Cyber Espionage Unit, PLA 61398, systemically stole hundreds of terabytes of data between 2006 and 2013 using a broad range of malware. The report even manages to geolocate the unit, estimating that the Shanghai building could hold more than 2,000 operatives.