Information Confrontation 2022 - A loud war and a quiet enemy
Recon Village @ DEF CON 30 • 12th, 13th and 14th August 2022
Abstract
In 2022 Russia invaded Ukraine. The manner in which this happened and the tactics used on all sides to frame this invasion cut deep to how we perceive media and information across the worldwide. This information confrontation is something the west is ill prepared to combat whereas this has been the operation for Russia for a long time. This however is also a background for the confrontation taking place in the networks across Europe and likely the East of the world. We are seeing joined up operations of Kinetic, Information, and Cyber warfare being conducted from all levels of the military. No longer can we ignore the power of joint operations and multi domain warfare. The focus of this talk will be information gathering and extrapolation
