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Hacktivism, commonly known as actions by individuals or groups that using hacking skills to spread a specific message and bring attention to a political or social cause, has risen and then fallen globally in the past five years. In the meantime, hacktivist activities have evolved, with an increase in state-sponsored hacktivism using false hacktivist personas, and the appearance of hacktivists who could also be described as "entrepreneurial geeks."  Not all hacktivists break into network systems; some perform troll activities to create online disruptions on social media to accomplish their goals. The recent phenomenon of fandom nationalists turned trolls adds another layer to the many roles of hacktivism.

This talk will discuss the role of hacktivism in information operations through case studies of hacktivist activities from various regions and countries, and provide insight into the structure, organization, motivations, goals, tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) of these hacktivist groups. The talk will also analyze how other threat actors utilize hacktivists to conduct information operations. Lastly, the talk will reflect on the future direction of global hacktivism in information operations as geopolitical tensions among major powers increase and nation-states reposition their cyber defense posture.

Hacktivism is evolving in the disinformation age with traditional hacktivist activities of breaking into systems and emerging hacktivist activities of creating online disruptions without breaking into systems. Hacktivist actors are not only non-state actors, but also nation state actors who use false hacktivist personas conducting information operations.

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The rapid development of information and communication technology brings significant change to human life. In the past, people have been getting information through conventional media such as newspapers, radio, and television. Today, the public relies heavily on digital media consisting of social media and online media that are in the grip within the internet network which provides wide-ranging information in speedy manner. The phenomenon of hoaxes in social media is part of the information warfare in the cyberspace dimension. Hoaxes as tactic of choice in propaganda defined as misleading information attacks to various aspects, covering to include health, economy, disaster-events, and politics. People who are lacking in understanding propaganda tactics like how the news and information addressed in the digital media are often fooled by hoaxes that maybe appear as texts, pictures or videos. The spread of hoaxes may get uncontrollable due to the many parties who deliberately spread the hoaxes for a particular interest with anonymous accounts, fake accounts and so-called bots. The transmission of hoaxes as global phenomenon today, affecting many countries. Hoaxes that are spread in cyberspace are difficult to control without solid cooperation between government and society. This means of bad intension today by spreading news used as an asymmetric weapon extensively exercised during any political election period. This paper is about an analysis of hoax cases occurred in the time of Jakarta Gubernatorial Election 2017 as a case study.

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"Matome" sites (pronounced "maa-tou-mee", roughly means "edited / curated") is a unique byproduct of Japanese online culture.
They aggregate comments from other sources including anonymous BBSs (typically 2ch / 5ch) and present them in a readable way (with online ads).
Matome sites have been known as sources of disinformation and defamation, and in recent years some of them became go-to places for "Netouyo" (Japanese internet far-rightists) and quite influential.

In this presentation, I will give you a brief introduction of Japanese matome sites and their influences, then explain the recent efforts to debunk some of the most notorious ones.
Based on the judicial records, leaked internal documents, etc., the presentation will explain the entire ecosystem of Japanese matome sites.

Main points:
- The business model of matome sites
- The rise and fall of "Hoshu Sokuhou", one of the most influential matome sites.
- How "netgeek" operates, a notorious viral media.
- Debunking "Anonymous Post", or how to find out the anonymous operator of a matome site.

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In 2016 US election, social media played a vital role in shaping public opinions as expressed by the news media that have created the phenomenon of polarization in the United States. Because social media gave people the ability to follow, share, post, comment below everything, the phenomenon of political opinions being spread easily and quickly on social media by the news agencies is bringing out a significantly polarized populace.

Consequently, it’s very important to understand the language differences on Twitter and figure out how propaganda spread by different political parties that influence or perhaps mislead public opinion. This talk will introduce the relationship among the social media, public opinion, and news media, then suggests the method to collect the tweets from Twitter and conduct sentimental and logistic regression analysis on them. Furthermore, this talk points out the special aspect on the relationship between the polarization and the topic of this conference (fake news, disinformation and propaganda).

Main points:
- situation in Taiwan
- research on fake news
- methods for fighting fake news

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General overview of AFP's work in the region, examples of disinformation and how the team debunked them, work with Facebook to take enforcement action to prevent their further spread online.

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Massive leaks such as Wikileaks, Panama Papers and Snowden have made journalists realize that good old "just-meet-people-shoot-photo" days are gone.
Getting leak documents over the internet, grappling with data format, processing text with machine learning and protecting sources from surveillance are all getting new-norm for journalism.
However reporters, generally and historically, would be the last species to understand digital technology and data-oriented thinking.
I would like to share my experiences of teaching digital security to journalists and discuss difficulties of journalism in this post-truth world.

Underground forums serve as a huge source of information on emerging threats and threat actors. This is especially the case for newcomers looking to learn from seasoned players leading to formation of organized crime groups.

Many sophisticated cybercrimes have originated from underground discussion. The insights learned in the depths of the Dark Web are combined with a collection across multiple sources like discussion forums, marketplaces and paste sites produces interesting dataset. Collecting such data in a structured format provides a way to analyze how the underground works. Moreover, continuous flow of live scraping from multiple sources would increase the ability to narrow down the real culprits more effectively to reduce the damage by margin. During this presentation, we will focus on how this can be achieved.

Presentation will focus on:
1. Intro: Cybercrime. What to monitor and why? Why another scraping engine?
2. Purpose to achieve with data collection methods and monitoring: Flexibility, Scalability, Extraction, Undetected (FUD), Efficiency, Human factor.         
3. Tools: python3, Selenium, Firefox, Human factor, Message broker. Data flow and components
4. Roadblocks and solutions: login, 2fa, ddos-protectors, CF, tor hosting, network, restricted access, closed sources, languages, Competition within, scaling up
5. Results after 2 years: 100+ targets, 50M+ stolen financial product metadata which is being sold for 1.5B+ USD and more...
6. Conclusion: Bringing it all together

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The edge of the Internet is growing exponentially. NetFutures predicts by 2027 we'll have 1000+ devices per person.
Data is generated on the edge of the Internet and due to sociological and technical reasons the Internet, in the form of social networks, amplifies any voice no matter how small. Leading to the bombardment of information, thus filtering out manipulations and fake news from relevant information becomes harder.
This talk discusses the circumstances leading up to the current situation we're in and unveils a new internet protocol implementation designed to operate at the edge of the internet which builds the concept of provenance into data. A potential solution to the problem of fake news as proving data provenance allows you to authenticate the source or publisher of images, videos and text.

China’s ‘Great Firewall’ has evolved into the most sophisticated system of online censorship in the world.
As the Chinese internet grows and online businesses thrive, speech is controlled, dissent quashed, and attempts to organise outside the official Communist Party are quickly stamped out.
But the effects of the Great Firewall are not confined to China itself.
As distortion, post-truth and fake news become old news, Griffiths shows just how far the Great Firewall has spread, actively exporting its technology to Russia, Africa and Asia.

Introducing the speakers and handling the Q&A sessions