Lee Foster
@leefosterintel.bsky.social
AI Security / Cyber Threat Intel / Disinformation / Influence Operations. Founder aspectlabs.ai, Adjunct at Johns Hopkins SAIS Alperovitch Institute for Cybersecurity Studies, formerly Director of Influence Ops Analysis at Mandiant. All views my own etc.
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CYBERWARCON is coming!!! Registration and CFP are now open for this year's #CYBERWARCON! This year's keynote speaker will be @dmitri.silverado.org!!
We are back in Arlington, VA this year on November 19th.
www.cyberwarcon.com
We are back in Arlington, VA this year on November 19th.
www.cyberwarcon.com
CYBERWARCON
www.cyberwarcon.com
August 28, 2025 at 5:35 PM
CYBERWARCON is coming!!! Registration and CFP are now open for this year's #CYBERWARCON! This year's keynote speaker will be @dmitri.silverado.org!!
We are back in Arlington, VA this year on November 19th.
www.cyberwarcon.com
We are back in Arlington, VA this year on November 19th.
www.cyberwarcon.com
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Turns out that when using end to end encryption it’s very important to know who is the end
March 24, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Turns out that when using end to end encryption it’s very important to know who is the end
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New phone, Houthis
March 24, 2025 at 6:01 PM
New phone, Houthis
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📣 Oops!... They did it again!!!
61 Talks submitted and so many too good that, once again, we had to increase a bit the number of accepted talks.🔥
#PIVOTcon25 Agenda is finally here, and the caliber is insane!!! Check it out➡️ pivotcon.org/agenda-2025/
#CTI #ThreatIntel
Talks and presenters in🧵⬇️ 1/18
61 Talks submitted and so many too good that, once again, we had to increase a bit the number of accepted talks.🔥
#PIVOTcon25 Agenda is finally here, and the caliber is insane!!! Check it out➡️ pivotcon.org/agenda-2025/
#CTI #ThreatIntel
Talks and presenters in🧵⬇️ 1/18
March 7, 2025 at 2:42 PM
📣 Oops!... They did it again!!!
61 Talks submitted and so many too good that, once again, we had to increase a bit the number of accepted talks.🔥
#PIVOTcon25 Agenda is finally here, and the caliber is insane!!! Check it out➡️ pivotcon.org/agenda-2025/
#CTI #ThreatIntel
Talks and presenters in🧵⬇️ 1/18
61 Talks submitted and so many too good that, once again, we had to increase a bit the number of accepted talks.🔥
#PIVOTcon25 Agenda is finally here, and the caliber is insane!!! Check it out➡️ pivotcon.org/agenda-2025/
#CTI #ThreatIntel
Talks and presenters in🧵⬇️ 1/18
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This satirical deepfake of Zelensky begging for US aid and admitting to being a corrupt drug addict is going around.
A deepfake-for-hire group made it. It has 3.6M views on TikTok, and big pro-Kremlin influencers like Aussie Cossack have shared it. It's a joke. It's also a way to launder disinfo.
A deepfake-for-hire group made it. It has 3.6M views on TikTok, and big pro-Kremlin influencers like Aussie Cossack have shared it. It's a joke. It's also a way to launder disinfo.
March 4, 2025 at 8:14 PM
This satirical deepfake of Zelensky begging for US aid and admitting to being a corrupt drug addict is going around.
A deepfake-for-hire group made it. It has 3.6M views on TikTok, and big pro-Kremlin influencers like Aussie Cossack have shared it. It's a joke. It's also a way to launder disinfo.
A deepfake-for-hire group made it. It has 3.6M views on TikTok, and big pro-Kremlin influencers like Aussie Cossack have shared it. It's a joke. It's also a way to launder disinfo.
Vandals at Schmoocon
January 12, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Vandals at Schmoocon
We desperately need a bookmark function here. How are people efficiently saving content?
December 9, 2024 at 3:57 PM
We desperately need a bookmark function here. How are people efficiently saving content?
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I’ve had a few calls recently with some criminally ambitious founders.
“I want to use AI to do everything”
“we take a systems level approach to AI”
“AI is central to our design process”
And the truth is I am so exhausted.
Where did this boundless optimism come from?
“I want to use AI to do everything”
“we take a systems level approach to AI”
“AI is central to our design process”
And the truth is I am so exhausted.
Where did this boundless optimism come from?
December 4, 2024 at 3:50 AM
I’ve had a few calls recently with some criminally ambitious founders.
“I want to use AI to do everything”
“we take a systems level approach to AI”
“AI is central to our design process”
And the truth is I am so exhausted.
Where did this boundless optimism come from?
“I want to use AI to do everything”
“we take a systems level approach to AI”
“AI is central to our design process”
And the truth is I am so exhausted.
Where did this boundless optimism come from?
Another excellent Vertex workshop. Be sure to join next year!
Our team is grateful to everyone who joined us for the workshop last Thursday at @cyberwarcon.bsky.social!
To stay in touch with other attendees, join our Slack community at v.vtx.lk/slack.
#CYBERWARCON #threatintelligence #CTI
To stay in touch with other attendees, join our Slack community at v.vtx.lk/slack.
#CYBERWARCON #threatintelligence #CTI
November 29, 2024 at 3:03 AM
Another excellent Vertex workshop. Be sure to join next year!
This morning I had the pleasure of presenting to a closed group of Guatemalan journalists and government representatives at Universidad del Valle de Guatemala on responsible reporting around foreign influence operations
November 26, 2024 at 6:59 PM
This morning I had the pleasure of presenting to a closed group of Guatemalan journalists and government representatives at Universidad del Valle de Guatemala on responsible reporting around foreign influence operations
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You won't want to miss this conversation with Maureen Hinman on Trade, Critical Supply & Geopolitical Competition!
WHEN: Monday, Nov 18 | 5 - 6:30PM
WHERE: JHU Bloomberg Center, 555 Penn, the Link (Room 426)
RSVP 👉 forms.gle/L224Q2qNCXfU...
WHEN: Monday, Nov 18 | 5 - 6:30PM
WHERE: JHU Bloomberg Center, 555 Penn, the Link (Room 426)
RSVP 👉 forms.gle/L224Q2qNCXfU...
November 13, 2024 at 6:22 PM
You won't want to miss this conversation with Maureen Hinman on Trade, Critical Supply & Geopolitical Competition!
WHEN: Monday, Nov 18 | 5 - 6:30PM
WHERE: JHU Bloomberg Center, 555 Penn, the Link (Room 426)
RSVP 👉 forms.gle/L224Q2qNCXfU...
WHEN: Monday, Nov 18 | 5 - 6:30PM
WHERE: JHU Bloomberg Center, 555 Penn, the Link (Room 426)
RSVP 👉 forms.gle/L224Q2qNCXfU...
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Frm @ridt.bsky.social @gavinwilde.bsky.social and @leefosterintel.bsky.social in @foreignaffairs.bsky.social: when we exaggerate the efficacy and impact of foreign influence ops, the ones who benefit the most are the very threat actors that are behind these ops www.foreignaffairs.com/russian-fede...
Don’t Hype the Disinformation Threat
Underplaying the risk helps foreign propagandists—but so does exaggerating it.
www.foreignaffairs.com
May 3, 2024 at 4:11 PM
Frm @ridt.bsky.social @gavinwilde.bsky.social and @leefosterintel.bsky.social in @foreignaffairs.bsky.social: when we exaggerate the efficacy and impact of foreign influence ops, the ones who benefit the most are the very threat actors that are behind these ops www.foreignaffairs.com/russian-fede...
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“When officials exaggerate the efficacy and impact of foreign propaganda, the ones who benefit the most are the very regimes that produce it,” write @olgs7.bsky.social, @leefosterintel.bsky.social, @ridt.bsky.social, and @gavinwilde.bsky.social.
Don’t Hype the Disinformation Threat
Underplaying the risk helps foreign propagandists—but so does exaggerating it.
www.foreignaffairs.com
May 3, 2024 at 8:23 PM
“When officials exaggerate the efficacy and impact of foreign propaganda, the ones who benefit the most are the very regimes that produce it,” write @olgs7.bsky.social, @leefosterintel.bsky.social, @ridt.bsky.social, and @gavinwilde.bsky.social.
For anyone interested in the world of generative AI detection in the info ops domain, I wrote up a brief overview of a project I recently completed: Building (and Testing) Classifiers for the Detection of Artificially Generated Text www.linkedin.com/pulse/buildi...?
August 28, 2023 at 4:10 PM
For anyone interested in the world of generative AI detection in the info ops domain, I wrote up a brief overview of a project I recently completed: Building (and Testing) Classifiers for the Detection of Artificially Generated Text www.linkedin.com/pulse/buildi...?
Excited to be speaking at this year's Mandiant mWISE Conference on the Implications of Generative AI for Cyber-Enabled Influence Operations. This will be a balanced talk discussing not only threats, but also actor constraints/limitations (not a FUD-fest!) https://mwise.mandiant.com/conf23/sessions
June 28, 2023 at 6:38 PM
Excited to be speaking at this year's Mandiant mWISE Conference on the Implications of Generative AI for Cyber-Enabled Influence Operations. This will be a balanced talk discussing not only threats, but also actor constraints/limitations (not a FUD-fest!) https://mwise.mandiant.com/conf23/sessions
Event Alert: Cyber Initiatives Group Summer Summit Tomorrow (June 28), CIG is holding its Summer Summit, full of panels on the latest in cybersecurity. Looking forward to speaking on the impact of cyber-propelled disinfo alongside Glenn Gerstell and Paul Lekas. Event is free and open to the public
June 27, 2023 at 3:48 PM
Event Alert: Cyber Initiatives Group Summer Summit Tomorrow (June 28), CIG is holding its Summer Summit, full of panels on the latest in cybersecurity. Looking forward to speaking on the impact of cyber-propelled disinfo alongside Glenn Gerstell and Paul Lekas. Event is free and open to the public