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Looking for a Smoking Gun Behind a False Flag Attack

Posted: April 18th, 2017

By Hank Thomas

Hank Thomas is a Partner and Chief Operating Officer at Strategic Cyber Ventures. Previously, he served as an executive at Booz Allen Hamilton - a global strategy, technology, and consulting firm - leading a business focused on military grade cybersecurity, incident response, information fusion, threat intelligence center design, and development and operations in the commercial space.

How can a government, or a company, determine who launched a cyber attack? Attribution becomes even more difficult when the attackers disguise themselves as others. The Cipher Brief asked Hank Thomas, a partner and Chief Operating Officer at Strategic Cyber Ventures, what so-called false flags in cyberspace look like and what investigators need to break through the attackers’ deception.

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