How to Fake Friends and Find People: A Build-A-Buddy case study

Presented at BSidesSF 2022 Rescheduled, June 5, 2022, 2:30 p.m. (50 minutes)

Join us, two prior Special Operations cyber operators, as we share our case study on Operational Security revolving around recent crowdsourced ad-hoc OSINT/Humanitarian missions and how to properly isolate your true identity from your temporary operational online persona.


Presenters:

  • Alex Dodd - Attack Research, LLC
    Alex is a Penetration Tester and Project Lead with Attack Research, LLC. From software testing to network engineering and IT management to cyber security, Alex has been involved in many levels of cyber security. He also has comprehensive experience in the behaviors, patterns, and tradecraft of advanced cyber actors and adversarial technique detection due to his time serving on several Special Operations Cyberspace Operations missions.
  • Dahvid Schloss - Echelon Cyber + Risk
    Dahvid is the Managing Lead, Offensive Security at Echelon Risk + Cyber. As an experienced professional with over 12 years of cyber-attack and defense experience, Dahvid has previously worked as a Red Team Operator with a Big 4 consulting firm leading and conducting Adversarial Emulation exercises. He also served in the military, leading, conducting, and advising on special operations offensive cyber operations. He has a wide background in cyber security including logical, social, and physical exploitation as well as leading malware development enabling C2 execution while evading endpoint detection solutions.

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