Hackfest 2024 - 16-bit Edition

Tammy Harper

Tammy is a Senior Threat Intelligence Researcher and Certified Dark Web Investigator at Flare. She currently is an admin and volunteer researcher for the open source project RansomLook and a contributor to the DeepDarkCTI project. When she is not working on infiltrating dark web communities she is listening to techno and ambient and sipping a delicious matcha latte. Her other hobbies include street, nature and architectural photography and hosting brunches with friends and family.


Your pronouns

she/her

Which country are you from?

Canada

Your twitter or other social network

https://www.linkedin.com/in/tammyharper11/


Session

10-11
13:00
20min
Persōna Theory: Infiltration & Deception of Emerging Threat Groups
Tammy Harper

An exploration of techniques, tactics and psychological models used in the infiltration of emerging threat actor groups.
Our personas are fabrications and constructions of our inner self that we project outwards. We do this through various means and influences such as race, gender, sex, ability, age, culture, religion, norms, class, and status. For the “real world” aka “irl” we do all this by expression in our clothing, makeup, hairstyling, our hobbies, our network of friends, colleagues, and acquaintances. We leverage all of these facets and we create masks, personas, that we think will best interact with the world around us. The same concepts apply when creating personas for infiltrating online communities.

Threat Intelligence / OSINT
Track 1 (206b)