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U.S. INTEL COMMUNITY IS LOOKING TO EXPAND ITS UNDERSTANDING OF “CYBERPSYCHOLOGICAL” WARFARE
TIM MCMILLAN·BREAKING NEWS DEFENSETECH / thedebrief.org/author/tim-mcmillan/
SEPTEMBER 27, 2022
The United States Intelligence Community is looking to better understand how emerging technologies can exploit human cognition for what can be characterized as “cyberpsychological” warfare.
According to a recently issued “Request for Information” (RFI), the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, or IARPA, “is seeking information on methods, studies, findings, approaches, and appropriate metrics for characterizing the cognitive effects in cyber operations.”
IARPA appears to be taking a broad approach to understanding cyberspace’s human element, examining how cyberpsychological factors can be used in both offensive and defensive cyber operations.
“Techniques currently used in online advertising, political campaigning, e-commerce, and online gaming successfully profit from vulnerabilities in human psychology,” reads the RFI issued by IARPA. “Cyber attackers often take advantage of similar human limitations through social engineering.”
In recent years, the Russian Federation has used cyberspace extensively for social engineering operations designed to influence foreign decision-making processes favorable to Moscow’s interests.
The underlying framework behind Russia’s modern cyber-influence campaigns is a reinstatement of a Soviet-era psychological warfare concept called “reflexive control.” According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, reflexive control is a “massive psychological manipulation of the population to destabilize the state and society.”
And while the concept may not be new, the internet and social media have provided a perfect venue for reflexive control to become a potent weapon for asymmetrical warfare. So much so that some researchers have said Russia’s standard tactic of using paid social media users, or “troll factories,” to influence public opinion represents an entirely new form of psychological warfare called “masspersonal social engineering.”
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U.S. INTEL COMMUNITY IS LOOKING TO EXPAND ITS UNDERSTANDING OF “CYBERPSYCHOLOGICAL” WARFARE
TIM MCMILLAN·BREAKING NEWS DEFENSETECH / thedebrief.org/author/tim-mcmillan/
SEPTEMBER 27, 2022
The United States Intelligence Community is looking to better understand how emerging technologies can exploit human cognition for what can be characterized as “cyberpsychological” warfare.
According to a recently issued “Request for Information” (RFI), the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, or IARPA, “is seeking information on methods, studies, findings, approaches, and appropriate metrics for characterizing the cognitive effects in cyber operations.”
IARPA appears to be taking a broad approach to understanding cyberspace’s human element, examining how cyberpsychological factors can be used in both offensive and defensive cyber operations.
“Techniques currently used in online advertising, political campaigning, e-commerce, and online gaming successfully profit from vulnerabilities in human psychology,” reads the RFI issued by IARPA. “Cyber attackers often take advantage of similar human limitations through social engineering.”
In recent years, the Russian Federation has used cyberspace extensively for social engineering operations designed to influence foreign decision-making processes favorable to Moscow’s interests.
The underlying framework behind Russia’s modern cyber-influence campaigns is a reinstatement of a Soviet-era psychological warfare concept called “reflexive control.” According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, reflexive control is a “massive psychological manipulation of the population to destabilize the state and society.”
And while the concept may not be new, the internet and social media have provided a perfect venue for reflexive control to become a potent weapon for asymmetrical warfare. So much so that some researchers have said Russia’s standard tactic of using paid social media users, or “troll factories,” to influence public opinion represents an entirely new form of psychological warfare called “masspersonal social engineering.”
CONTINUE READING: thedebrief.org/u-s-intel-community-is-looking-to-expand-its-understanding-of-cyberpsychological-warfare/#sq_h6lgjnd8gn