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Russia, China + others attack America + her Allies

relentlessly and continuously

Phishing, spoofing, identity-theft (impersonation) espionage, terrorism, industrial sabotage, radicalization
financial theft, ransomware, malware, denial of service attacks, bullying, doxing, blackmail, swatting, revenge-porn, sextortion, extortion, hate-crimes, pedophilia, child-grooming, child-pornography,
human-trafficking, copyright-infringement, piracy, theft of intellectual property, social-engineering, smishing, vishing, bugging, fraud, malvertising, information – warfare, propaganda, disinformation
spyware, misinformation, cyberstalking, stalkerware, illicit poisons and drugs via the darknet,
lonely-hearts exploits, fleeceware, drip-pricing, crypters…

jeeezze, I know right… many are factors in hybrid-warfare.

In a hybrid-war an adversary uses every possible tool to weaken and exploit the citizenry.

*Cyber-enabled attacks are exacting an enormous toll on American businesses, government agencies, and families Computer intrusions, cyber-crime schemes, and the covert misuse of digital infrastructure have bankrupted firms, destroyed billions of dollars in investments, and helped influence-operations designed to undermine fundamental American institutions.

National Risk Management

ODNI Releases Report on Assessing Russian Activities & Intentions in Recent US Elections 1/6/2017

*United States Dept. of Justice Cyber-report Pdf 4/2/2018

FBI Indictment of Russian Net Research Agency Pdf 2/16/2018

NSA Leaked Transcript of 2016 Russian Election Meddling 4/17/20

Who’s Who In Russian Cyber Espionage 9/24/2019

Special Counsel Mueller’s Report 4/18/2019

Mueller, addendum,Vol 1, Vol 2, Appendix 6/19/2020

Special Counsel Mueller’s Memos, FBI-FOIA 2/19/2021

Impeachment Inquiry Report House Intelligence 12/3/2019

Pillar’s of Russia Disinformation + Propaganda System pdf 8/5/2020

Russian Media Monitor, Russia Lies 4/15/2021

GEC Special Report, State Department pdf 3/16/2020

Russian Active Measures Campaigns Interference Counterintelligence Threats Vulnerabilities pdf 8/18/2020

Counterintelligence Threats Vulnerabilities pdf

ODNI Intelligence Community Assessment of Foreign Threats to the 2020 U.S. Election

Analyzing Russian Information Warfare Influence Ops 4/10/2019

Russian Intelligence Service Disinformation Outlets 4/9/2021

Voting Misinformation on Twitter in 2020 US Election 10/21/2020

Communications, commerce and government are numerous aspects of modernity forever altered and in countless ways made more convenient through the internet, yet these same advantages also afford new tools for technologically savvy criminals.Crimes such as terrorism, espionage, financial fraud and identity-theft have always existed in the realm of the analogue but have rapidly merged into the cyber domain, even into outer space. Deception and destruction are their modus operandi.

One such subterfuge is steganography; the practice of concealing a pdf file, text message, image, or video within another file, message, image etc. 911 radicalized terrorists coordinated this particular method of obscuration to arrange an autonomous international communications and subvert a digitized detection. This shortcoming in machine learning also facilitates the rampant spread of child pornography.

Human Trafficking: Investigating an Evil in Plain Sight 6/17/2021

Trafficking in Persons Report, US State Department, pdf 2019

As nation-state sponsors of terrorism and advanced persistent threats exploit this new frontier their abuse of the internet + technology add layers of complexity that cannot be entirely overcome through the efforts of any single agency or intelligence alliance.

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FIVE EYES INTELLIGENCE OVERSIGHT + REVIEW COUNCIL (FIORC)

We live in a super-advanced epochal era where we possess a virtually limitless access to an instantaneous abundance of knowledge and art. However this exhaustive trove of information comes with a vicious caveat; a dark side: the age of surveillance capitalism. Certain players have the capability to comport themselves behind a quasi mask of anonymity via TOR or subnet browsers, proxy servers, VPN’s, hacking etcetera. This quasi-autonomy often compels sophisticated criminals to ostensibly function with impunity. It is also important to understand the distinction between a hacker (penetration tester) and a cracker, whose intent is destructive and malevolent. These titles have become confusedly interchangeable.

Operators employ a VPN (virtual private network) on principle. Both VPNs or an anonymizer will allow a user to appear as if they are connecting to the internet from another location. Regardless, any digitized (data) that is flagged, or of a valid actionable intelligence concern will subject any ISP to ample subpoena requiring records of evidence pertaining That is why a VPN is not exempt nor inviolable, or beyond the reach of law. Privately secured co-keyed end-to-end encryption is necessary for an entirely secretive communications protocol. *encryption keys

Thought-crimes (an asinine dictatorial proposition) are the numerous primary evidentiary transgressions sought after by autocratic and totalitarian governments to whom all beliefs & non-beliefs become their ultimate objectives. Anonymity and privacy cannot be illegal! In all communist despotic authoritarian nations this web site could be misperceived or misconstrued as lèse-majesté and taken as a thought crime, irrespective of any inherent honesty, elan or meritocracy. In every nation there exists an intelligentsia, but only in totalitarian nations are they feared, oppressed and denied. Information manipulation is the fundamental objective of propaganda.

Data – mining is a foregone conclusion and personal info is tracked, sold, leveraged and monetized. One partial potential semi-solution for specific targeted-marketing is to opt – out from providing your I.P. address, Internet protocol, (individualized numerical identifier).

Magic Cookies are a standard model for web sites recognizing return users’ computers. In many forms these devices are a gray area and they have nebulous ways for circumventing their exclusion. Limiting cookies (in many cases) can compromise and reduce a sites’ interoperability, this rather makes them integral, but restricting them does cut-down tracking and ad targeting. Operators should be paid or compensated for their allowance of cookies, given that their prowess isn’t always clear. Users are unwittingly participating in marketing analytics schemes that compromise privacy.

Until the marketeers and statisticians scraping our data-sets of demographic tracks (commercializing browsing history) devise a compensatory plan, it is reasonable to claim ownership over what is rightfully yours. Information brokers mine a hidden data ecosystem. a store and then couple + identify (pair) purchases at POS transaction.

Similarly, you have a right to subscribe to a do-not-call-list to effectively opt-out and reduce harmful annoyances: spam & potentially dangerous email traps. In *China, and soon all of Russia, it will be impossible and illegal to exercise any completely determinative control over internet privacy and the solemn right to exempt and exclude oneself from espionage, spying and eavesdropping. *censorship in China *key-word flagging

Privacy and personal (PET’s) safety measures are largely forbidden and regarded with suspicion in non-democratic countries and police-states. The observations of surveillance cameras united with computer vision are increasing exponentially as the deployment of video-analytics, facial recognition algorithms become nearly ubiquitous. This is the field of AI specializing in exploiting PII, personally identifiable information. Here is an example of hidden personal identifiers on credit cards, and Social Security Numbers.

Images and *sounds are instantly sifted, time-stamped, categorized + integrated (shared) with law enforcement and numerous intelligence agencies derived from public interfacing cameras + sensors, ATM’s, markets, malls, bus-train-stations, traffic cameras, license plate readers, fuel-stops, airports, phones, smart-cars, Skype, Zoom, webcams, public buildings and any concurrent CCTV feed or permissible ioT (internet of things) device and additionally any leaky tracking technologies.

A.I. (artificial intelligence) paired with biometric technologies record: time (triangulation) longitude/latitude location, voice prints, ambient-audio; such as acoustic gunshot detection and retinal scans, body temperature, (thermographic cameras) and can perceive duress from facial expressions, as well as recognizes and assigns (deduces) identity based on mannerisms, gestures, posture, gait, cadence and demeanor. A.I. could also anticipate behavioral outcomes (predictive policing) based on previously detected activities (knowns) and irregular usage patterns denotative of unusual (out of bounds) OOB requests. Another extrapolative deduction tool is geolocation, the art of determining a suspects location from incidental images and IMSI cell phone catchers. Mass Surveillance

Thermographic technology applied to through-the-wall-technology,

The United States Constitution

Unreasonable search and seizure

Democracies must ensure her citizens have a fully consistent access to the internet all of the time and that their privacy is assured, guaranteed and respected so that they may express themselves fully, freely, safely and without suspicion of retaliation or recrimination from some ludicrous scheme of social-grading determined by faceless impersonal legally unaccountable minions + informants.

         Nothing could  be more un-American

Personal beliefs are sovereign rights and constitutionally protected freedom of speech, therefore by logical extension those rights also pertain to lawful electronically conveyed communications. Americans possess the rights to privately, safely and personally control whichever entities they may deem necessary to receive lawful authenticating information for personal and private transactional purposes in perpetuity! Freedom of speech is an American birthright, and belongs to everyone who obtains citizenship.

USA’s citizens are presumed innocent until proven guilty. Government integrity and culpability for personal & private civil liberties are the very basis for universal human rights. United States’ citizens uphold freedoms with the utmost importance and significance. Independence, the free press, and free thought are inexorable core principles empowering a vital enduring constantly renewing democracy. Many Americans fail to understand that complete constitutional liberties are full rights mostly confined to one’s properties and lawful dwellings; and that in itself is being called into question in this young evolving 21st century.

These are many reasons people everywhere should become thoroughly aware of methods for recognizing and reporting vulnerabilities, thus contributing to the mutual protection of families, neighbors, businesses, government, all places of worship, & world wide civic and civil institutions. *net-flow data

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Journal of Online Trust and Safety

E-mailing (electronic mail) is the most prominent function that exposes us to exploitation in the net. Generally the average user cannot resist the attraction of some ‘come-on’ that promises something ‘too good to be true’ and appeals to a subject of their interest. Tailored individuated targeting is the primary art and craft spammers and identity thieves employ to exploit the naïveté (limited awareness) of a neophyte or the gullibility of the innocent. This form of masquerading takes advantage of a mutual language, circumstance, personal interest, minor age, race or nationality.

Crimes that utilize familiarity exploit traits, customs and native languages. They prey upon undocumented citizens whom face an enormous disadvantage applying force of law to report abuse and protect themselves and others from harm. Elder abuse is another example of crime targeting the vulnerabilities of a particular grouping or demographic. Another application of this term is addressed in computer terminology.

Abuse is common within immigrant communities as they have less confidence and familiarity with our laws and systems and could be more accepting of such practices depending on norms in their country of origin. Undocumented citizens are especially susceptible to this manner of exploitation because of language limitations that complicate a non-English speakers ability to clearly determine intent. Deceptive dark-patterns and guile are rife in the net so users must learn to recognize it, or by it → become used. These are universal truths irrespective of nationality. Links & (addresses) are for personal edification and to inform anyone regarding methods to assist in assuring their safety, detect abuse and if necessary, report it anonymously.

Spoofing are emails or web sites that contain convincing presentations depicting familiar registered trade-marks and trade-names they are imitating. These are commonly used to trick users into revealing passwords or other compromising personal information. These deceptions include acts of forgery. This is the typical ploy and aim of an identity-thief seeking an identity to use while impersonating someone. In the context of network security, a spoofing attack is when a person or program successfully masquerades as another by falsifying data.

Some hackers also use individuated penetrations to store portions of aggregated data on many computers. This is compartmentalization that conceals and collates the scattered code synchronizing DDoS attacks dispatched through daisy-chained machines; the use of a large number of infected devices that lead to slow or unresponsive web-facing devices and applications. This is the technique of distributed computing.

Tracking signal-pixels embedded within email images are another sneaky way marketeers and spammers can determine whether their campaigns are successfully meeting their targets. The best way to reduce spam is by not reading it and deleting it outright. Apple® endeavors to eliminate these exploits in the web. Remote content are parts of a message (such as images, stylesheets, or videos) which are not included in the message itself, but are downloaded from the Internet when you view the message. Remote content is a privacy concern because it allows the message sender to know each time you view the message. Email software allows remote content to be disabled. This is the safest default mode and you can then select trusted sites to view completely. For safety’s sake, it is important to limit use of web browser extensions because they often contain backdoors.

How spear phishing works: firstly criminals need some inside information on their targets to convince them the e-mails are legitimate. They often obtain sources by hacking into an organizations computer network and by combing through other ancillary websites, blogs, twitter, instagram are required to use passwords, account numbers, user IDs, access codes, PINs…

Spear phishing is designed to trick you into downloading malicious code or malware by compelling to you click on a link embedded in the e-mail or website. Malware will hijack your computer, and hijacked computers can be organized into enormous networks called botnets that are used to distribute code for DDoS and other coordinated swarming attack vectors. Recently, the deception known as a deepfake (portmanteau) was utilized to aurally (using audio imitation) coerce insiders.

Spoofing is a beguiling variant of deceit known as artifice (deceptive artistry) employed by the con-artist to incorporate seemingly authentic appearing documents that compel you to believe they are from legitimate sources. This scamming is also a tactic in phishing emails designed for the acquisition of personal information to be used in an attempted usurpation (appropriation) of one’s identity via fraud, misrepresentation, coercion and extortion.

Phishing by sexual predation is technically PSYOPS (psychological operations) a designed procedural access mode to compromise unwitting participants. Generally predators are working schemes on gaming-sites, dating sites, social-networking, pornography sites,,Tinder, Facebook, Twitter, Internet Relay Chat (IRC). Other predators actually have discussions in online criminal forums. These and many other venues too numerous to cite are mines for personalized data that criminals use to manipulate victims. They are targetable resources for child-grooming: a method applied to gradually coerce minors by subverting their CON-fidence…

☀︎ systematic coerced compromising information☀︎

1) personal comments 2) tele numbers 3) personal photographs 4) videos 5) texts 6) hang-outs 7) school schedules 8) friends 9) jobs of parents +siblings 10) where are they presently 11) church attendance 12) vacation times 13) clubs, groups, hobbies 14) timelines they keep etc… Anybody asking this line of questioning is not a friend. Aside from being a potential sexual predator, they could be a modern thief casing or scouting (probing) a burglary site or plotting some other home invasion scenario.

Phishing criminals or imposters are remarkably skillful plying their digitized craft, a modern form of counterfeiting. Although an email has convincing brands, logos, proper language usage,,and seemingly valid email address does not mean its legitimate. Be skeptical when it comes to your email messages, if it looks even remotely suspicious, don’t open it, put it in the trash, and then empty the trash. To completely remove (empty the trash folder) this subsequent (secondary) trashing procedure permanently removes copies from your email server. If these actions fail to remove all email then manage settings, or consult tech-support from your ISP, Internet Service Provider.

These imitative schemes apply a variety of tactics to gain trust and confidence. By registering website domain names that are difficult to distinguish from the companies they are attempting to imitate, a crafty duplicitous artistry (fraud) is undertaken: a crude method of a digital ersatz forgery.

Reportage

A general report addressed to ‘abuse’ with the header attached then sent to the systems administrator → (sysop) can minimize some interlopers. This is not the case in every instance, if so, the ‘abuse@(address)’ will bounce back—-> and will

Return to Sender…

Search your specific site of interest for more detailed reporting addresses.

Report a phishing email via Gmail

1. From Gmail:
2. Open the message.
3. Next to Reply , click the Down arrow
4. Click Report phishing, or also: