Presented at
Black Hat Europe 2017,
Dec. 7, 2017, 2 p.m.
(60 minutes)
There is no spoon! We live in the Matrix and no information can be trusted without validation. Content promotion services have been available in the grey market for some time, but the Fake News Phenomena did not gain public attention until a number of media outlets argued that several elections were heavily influenced by fake news. In this presentation, we will demonstrate tools and methods available to public mind manipulators, and walk through a selection of previous research, including USSR's study on public control and a Chinese study on crisis management. Moreover, we take Twitter posts as examples to demonstrate how significant social events are used by malefactors to promote their own agenda. We will also demonstrate a number of techniques used by cyber propaganda perpetrators, as well as how to detect their activities. To conclude, we will visit several underground markets to see how the services facilitate opinion manipulation.
Presenters:
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Vladimir Kropotov
- Sr. Researcher, FTR, TrendMicro
Vladimir Kropotov is a researcher with Trend Micro FTR team. Active for over 15 years in information security projects and research, he previously built and led incident response teams at Fortune 500 companies and was head of the Incident Response Team at Positive Technologies. He holds a masters degree in applied mathematics and information security. He also participates in various projects for leading financial, industrial, and telecom companies. His main interests lie in network traffic analysis, incident response, and botnet and cybercrime investigations. Vladimir regularly appears at high-profile international conferences such as FIRST, CARO, HITB, Hack.lu, PHDays, ZeroNights, POC, Hitcon, and many others.
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Lion Gu
- Sr. Researcher, FTR, TrendMicro
Lion Gu is a senior threat researcher at Trend Micro, Inc. He has been a security professional for over 13 years. His research covers various fields, including malware analysis, mobile security, and underground cybercriminal economy. He has spoken at several conferences like RuxCon, AVAR, AsiaCCS, and RISE.
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Fyodor Yarochkin
- Sr. Researcher, FTR, TrendMicro
Fyodor Yarochkin is a researcher with TrendMicro Taiwan as well as a PhD candidate in EE at the National Taiwan University. He was an early Snort developer, and open source evangelist as well as a "happy" programmer. Prior to that, Fyodor's professional experience includes several years as a threat analyst at Armorize and over eight years asa information security analyst responding to network security breaches and conducting remote network security assessments and network intrusion tests for a majority of the regional banking, finance, semiconductor, and telecommunication organizations. Fyodor is an active member of local security community and has spoken at a number of conferences regionally and globally.
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