Treadstone 71 releases details of hybrid operations and cognitive warfare actions by Iran

September 20-22 and November 8-10 in Fort Myers, Florida. Students will learn methods of deception to deceive adversaries, distraction tactics, content creation for distrust, as well as methods of deployment. These methods are included in student created cognitive campaigns that are continuous from multiple vectors. Students will learn cognition of targets while understanding worlds of social media, information, intelligence, and other online vectors. We also cover the issues associated with measuring campaign effectiveness and influence analysis. We will cover concepts in Cognitive Warfare, Grey Zone Tactics, Disinformation, Influence Operations, Information Operations, Color Revolutions, Neuro-Linguistic Program, Private Intelligence Firms, and more.

Cutting edge new course from Treadstone 71.

The course is a hybridized intelligence and counterintelligence course geared towards executing cyberspace operations through structured methods. Students gain practical hands-on skills in cyber militias and foreign legions, space operations, weaponizing conspiracy theories, using disinformation to control narratives, jihadist online operations and locations, and cryptocurrency scams and cash-out schemes, non-inclusively. The course concludes with a program maturity review, competency models for analysts and collectors, and a maturity tracking model for goals and objectives based on the maturity assessment.

(ISSA MEMBERS SPECIAL PRICING)

• Anonymity and Passive Persona setup - Clandestine Cyber HUMINT
• Glossary and Taxonomy
• Operational Security - OPSEC
• What Intelligence Can and Cannot Do
• Open-Source Intelligence Techniques and Tools
• OSINT Tools for Data Manipulation
• Stakeholder Analysis
• Intelligence Requirements to PIRs
  • SPECIAL TASKING
    • Strategic Intelligence Analysis
    • STEMPLES Plus - Hofstede Principles - Indicators of Change
    • Strategic Cyberspace Operations
    • Influence Operations
    • Counter-Influence Operations
    • Enhanced Situational Awareness
    • Space Operations
• Adversary Targeting - D3A F3EAD
• Time Sensitive Targeting
• Collection Methods and Techniques
• Collection Planning, IRs/PIRs/EEIs/Indicators/SIRs
• Collection Process Flow - Collection (OSINT) Tools and Targeting
• SPECIAL TASKING
  • Identification and collection of adversary handles and relative data - OSINT / darknet / social media
  • Adversary Denial and Deception
  • Data assessment and analysis
  • Deception detection - Counter-deception planning and execution
  • Course of Action Decision Points
  • Offensive Cyberspace Operations Through Narrative Control
• Hunch.ly and Use of Maltego – overview
• Darknet Sites of Interest
  • SPECIAL TASKING
    • Social Media - Off the beaten path review of social media platforms not in the mainstream
    • Adversary use of social media for social engineering
      • Jihadist Sites and where to find them
        • Burn phones
        • Virtualbox
          • Plugins and Use
          • Open Semantic Search - Oracle Virtual Box - OVA setup – Tracelabs
          • Android emulation
        • Portable Social Media
      • Cryptocurrency Scams
        • Cash-out schemes
        • Wallet tracking
        • Social media campaigns
• Intelligence Lifecycle Production Methods
• Structured Analytic Techniques – Their use - Case Study - ACH
• Extended Structured Analytic Techniques - In-depth coverage
• Source Credibility and Relevance - The real NATO Admiralty Scoring - CRAAP Tool for Relevance
• Source Validation - Confidence Levels
  • SPECIAL TASKING
    • Disinformation and Conspiracy Theories
    • Fake, Beyond Fake, and the Misinformation Matrix
    • Memetic Warfare
    • Patient Cyber Psyops
    • Identification, Glossary, Targeted Terminology
    • Understanding People - Cognition
    • Terms targeting YOU – The Dunning-Kruger
    • Trolls and the Dark Triad
    • The Pitch-Black Tetrad
    • Weaponizing the Message
    • Tribalism and Cultism
    • Cialdini and Social Psych
    • Vaxx Schedders
• Types of evidence
• Production Management
• SPECIAL TASKING
  • Creating and using cyber militias
  • Rapid Training
  • Militia Members' Levels of Expertise
  • Point and Shoot
  • Cyber Foreign Legion RoE
  • Cyber dead drops and covert coms
  • Targeting for trolling
  • Adversary courses of action
  • Adjust your fire
  • Cognitive Warfare
  • A Cyber Foreign Legion
• Critical and Creative Thinking
• Cognitive Bias
• Analysis and Analytic Writing
• FINAL SPECIAL TASKING
  • Team Maturity Assessment
  • Skill and Competency Levels
  • Goals and Objectives – Rapid Creation
• SPECIAL TASKINGS REVIEW
• Class Review and Wrap-up

Validated and registered students will receive login and preparation information 1 week prior to class start.

Corporate accounts are not Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, Mail, Hushmail, Protonmail, and the like). Treadstone 71 reserves the right to restrict course registration based upon certain risk factors. This course presents the student with foundational concepts and processes in the discipline of cyber counterintelligence with a focus on cyber counterintelligence missions, defensive counterintelligence, offensive counterintelligence, and counterespionage as these realms apply to traditional tradecraft, and how they are or will evolve into the cyber domain. The course includes a very different approach to counterintelligence using models exhibited online over the past few years to steer the conversation to the desired outcome

Enrollment Means Training EULA Acceptance – Strictly Enforced

Enrollment Means Training EULA Acceptance – Strictly Enforced

Details and organizational chart of Russian Cyber Militia actors in cyberspace.

Treadstone 71, LLC, your primary source for cyber intelligence and counterintelligence training and services, released in-depth details of Iranian intelligence-backed hybrid operations and cognitive warfare actions.

“Iranian intelligence uses social media to threaten and impersonate dissident groups, blatantly violating platform rules. Known intelligence operators openly working in cyberspace use social media for command and control,” stated Jeff Bardin, Chief Intelligence Officer at Treadstone 71.

“Basij Cyber Battalions execute plans on Twitter using pre-defined hashtags manipulating social media. These actions combined with physical infiltration of Iranian protests and demonstrations and distributed denial of service attacks shows a hybrid warfare approach to Iranian regime attacks against any opposition, internal and external.”

Treadstone 71 accessed the Iranian intelligence playbook for infiltrating protests. We found Iranian intelligence operators regularly infiltrating demonstrations, perverting protester messaging with divergent disinformation. Basij Cyber Battalions follow Telegram instructions describing how to avoid suspension on Twitter, while the regime develops devious ways to subvert and quash free speech. The plans include threatening messages and warnings on sites such as Telegram, Skype, Whatsapp, and Twitter, issuing instructions to execute cyber operations, how to create and manage fake social media accounts that impersonate media personalities, journalists, opposition leaders, and politicians while spreading false information that demonizes anything and anyone contrary to Islamic Republic’s ideals.

Details on the Islamic State and their online organization chart based on their information taken from within their forms and social media channels.

Online and In-Person Training Courses

A non-inclusive class list:

• ANALYTIC WRITING
• BUILDING A CYBER INTELLIGENCE PROGRAM
• CERTIFIED CYBER COUNTERINTELLIGENCE ANALYST - INFLUENCE OPERATIONS
• CERTIFIED CYBER INTELLIGENCE ANALYST
• COGNITIVE WARFARE
• CRITICAL THINKING AND COGNITIVE BIAS
• CYBER MILITIAS - RAPID ORGANIZING AND EXECUTION
• AGAINST NATION-STATE AGGRESSION
• DISINFORMATION, MISINFORMATION, DECEPTION, AND NARRATIVE CONTROL
• INFORMATION OPERATIONS
• INTELLIGENCE AND COUNTERINTELLIGENCE - CYBERSPACE LIFECYCLE AND OPERATIONS
• ONLINE - BASIC CYBER INTELLIGENCE TRADECRAFT
• ONLINE ADVANCED CYBER INTELLIGENCE TRADECRAFT
• ONLINE ANALYTIC WRITING (REPORTING AND BRIEFS)
• ONLINE CERTIFIED CYBER COUNTERINTELLIGENCE ANALYST
• ONLINE CRITICAL THINKING AND COGNITIVE BIAS FOR CYBER
• ONLINE INTERMEDIATE CYBER INTELLIGENCE TRADECRAFT INTELLIGENCE
• ONLINE STRATEGIC INTELLIGENCE ANALYSIS
• ONLINE STRATEGIC INTELLIGENCE ANALYSIS PLUS BUILDING AND ENHANCING YOUR CTI PROGRAM
• ONLINE THREAT HUNTING WITH TAHITI AND MAGMA
• STRATEGIC INTELLIGENCE ANALYSIS
• STRUCTURED ANALYTIC TECHNIQUES
• Customized training, build-to-order, and targeted adversary training.

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• Identify operational content to define the narrative(s) while examining imagery and the feelings created by such.
• Identify potential emotions, instincts, reflexes, and passions intended to exploit.
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