Weaponized Deception: Lessons from Indonesia's Muslim Cyber Army

A defunct Indonesian cyber deception collective of attackers known as Muslim Cyber Army (MCA) modeled one of the first known examples of weaponizing deception and disinformation to disrupt Indonesian politics more than a decade ago, well before the notorious Russian attempts to undermine American electoral politics in 2016. This presentation by one of the only former FBI profilers in the world specializing in cyber deception will detail how the MCA organized and functioned as a cyber deception attacker collective. While there has been some commentary on the defunct MCA, there has not been analysis looking at how MCA applied deception to its attacks. Several attackers in the MCA grew up and taught in Islamic boarding schools (pesantren) communities in West and Central Java, Indonesia, which is where the presenter conducted ethnographic research in the past shadowing proselytizers in pesantren, and studying communication practices. This presentation will explore the group dynamics of these communities to frame the origin stories of the MCA founder and MCA attackers. This presentation will also feature the first behavioral assessment of the jailed MCA founder and the first application of an expanded deception framework analyzing the MCA's cyber deception activity online. This presentation will outline how MCA contributed to the cyber deception field. By: Tim Pappa | Incident Response Engineer - Cyber Deception Strategy, Marketing, and Content Development Full Abstract and Presentation Materials: https://ift.tt/q8M3cPY

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