Foreign Influence of the 2016 Presidential Election

The 2016 U.S. Presidential Election was unprecedented on a number of levels. One’s personal politics aside, it is clear that there was a concerted foreign effort undertaken to influence the decision-making calculus of the American electorate. Was the perpetrator of that effort Russia, as conventional wisdom holds?

The analysts, linguists, and cultural experts at Wapack Labs looked at what data has been made publicly available from the government and other sources, as well as our own private data sources. We undertook this project to demonstrate that a serious analytic effort to attribute malicious activity is more than just connecting the dots: it is holistic, relying on diverse data sets, and subject to formal analytic methodologies.

Democracy Compromised is available to all Red Sky Alliance members in the portal.

We hope this work will both elevate the discussion around these issues, and enable decision-makers in the public and private sector who are concerned about these issues to focus their limited time on actual intelligence, rather than fear, hyperbole, and circular reporting.

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After Action Report: RNC 2016 SM Research Project

Wapack Labs teamed up with the Cleveland (OH) Police Department (CPD) to provide direct and actionable public safety intelligence to the CPD Intelligence Unit.  This project was to supplement the intelligence collections efforts in support of the 2016 Republican National Convention (RNC), held in July of 2016.  The RNC project, was initiated in May 2016 to provide daily social media (SM) collection, research and tactical analysis within surface and underground social media venues.  CPD requested specific support with a covert undercover operations using social media intelligence activities.

This After-Action Report is intended to serve as a capstone to the RNC SM Research Project, highlighting both the areas of success, and those which Wapack analysts recommend for improvement.

Publication date:                             23 September 2016

Handling requirements:                   Traffic light protocol (TLP) AMBER.

The full attribution report has been published in its entirety in the Red Sky Alliance portal.  For more information please contact the lab directly at 844-4-WAPACK, 603-606-1246, or feedback@wapacklabs.com.

About Wapack Labs

Wapack Labs, located in New Boston, NH is a Cyber Threat Analysis and Intelligence organization supporting the Red Sky Alliance, the FS-ISAC and individual organizations by offering expert level targeted intelligence analysis answering some of the hardest questions in Cyber.  Wapack Labs’ engineers, researchers and analysts use deep analysis techniques and visualization to design and deliver transformational cyber-security analysis tools that fuse open source and proprietary information.  The intelligence derived from these tools and techniques serve as the foundation of Wapack Labs’ information reporting to the cyber-security teams of its customers and industry partners located around the world.

SITREP –RNC Revealed Various Members of the Awakening Media Anarchist Group.

RNC (Republican National Convention) research revealed various members of the Awakening Media anarchist group.  This group links several of the previous names provided by a mid-west police department.  We are providing this information for situational awareness and cross reference.  

OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) collected and reviewed information provided by a mid-west police department regarding possible RNC protest organizers.  The full report includes the gathered information on the protest actors, as well as other information related to the actors and associated groups.  The data in this report is labeled based upon posting date, not date of findings, unless marked otherwise.  This information is being reviewed for situational awareness and event security planning.  Intelligence gaps include whom they are directly recruiting, as well as people with similar interests. Note some names do fall into direct recruitment efforts.

Publication date: 29 June 2016
Handling requirements: Traffic light protocol (TLP) GREEN
Attribution/Threat Actors: OSINT Protest Organizers/Anarchist Group Tier level I for cyber and II for physical.
Potential Targets: City of Cleveland

This report was published in its entirety to the Financial Services ISAC and Red Sky Alliance portal on June 29, 2016.  For more information, contact Wapack Labs at 844-4-WAPACK.

OPINTEL SITREP: Women for Peace to protest at the RNC

What is Operational Intelligence?  Operation Intelligence, OPINTEL for short is the term previously used in the Navy to refer to tailored, all-source intelligence provided directly to naval operating forces. It focuses on a potential adversary's capabilities, his immediate intentions, and the environment. It is oriented more toward combat than long-range planning.  

This OPINTEL report was authored by Wapack Labs Team Jagaer, in support of Red Sky Alliance portal members, law enforcement and protection details in Cleveland area or associated with the National Conventions. We've produced nearly 100 such reports in the last 30 days, distributing them in the Red Sky Alliance portal to members.    

This report was published in its entirety to the Red Sky Alliance portal on July 7th. For more information, contact Wapack Labs at 844-4-WAPACK.      

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On 10-11 July 2016 the Women for Peace organization which is an NGO that

describes itself as a, "grassroots peace and social justice movement working to end U.S.-funded wars and occupations, to challenge militarism globally, and to redirect our resources into health care, education, green jobs and other life-affirming activities." In addition to their focus on anti-war issues, Code Pink has taken action on issues such as drones (including protests, trips to meet with drone victims in Pakistan and Yemen and bringing them to the US), Guantanamo Bay prison (including a delegation that included former prisoners and yearly protests at the White House), Palestinian statehood (including its involvement in the BDS movement to protest Ahava, SodaStream, ReMax, and AirBnB), the Iran nuclear deal, Saudi Arabia (including protests to end U.S. alliance with Saudi Arabia, its airstrikes on Yemen, and its executions of its political dissidents), and Women Cross DMZ.

They will be protesting at Public Square during the RNC1. “The Convention will take place July 15 and 16 at Olivet Church, but will shift to the Masonic Auditorium, 3615 Euclid Ave Cleveland, Oh 44115, on Sunday.”