Название: Ultimate Cyberwarfare for Evasive Cyber Tactics: Unravel the Techniques of Cyberwarfare, Hacktivism and Asymmetric Conflicts for Tactical Excellence with Real-world Use Cases and Strategic Insights
Автор: Chang Tan
Издательство: Orange Education Pvt Ltd, AVA
Год: 2024
Страниц: 287
Язык: английский
Формат: epub (true), pdf
Размер: 10.1 MB

Attackers have to be only right once, but just one mistake will permanently undo them.

Key Features:
- Explore the nuances of strategic offensive and defensive cyber operations, mastering the art of digital warfare.
- Develop and deploy advanced evasive techniques, creating and implementing implants on even the most secure systems.
- Achieve operational security excellence by safeguarding secrets, resisting coercion, and effectively erasing digital traces.
- Gain valuable insights from threat actor experiences, learning from both their accomplishments and mistakes for tactical advantage.
- Synergize information warfare strategies, amplifying impact or mitigating damage through strategic integration.

Book Description
The “Ultimate Cyberwarfare for Evasive Cyber Tactic” is an all-encompassing guide, meticulously unfolding across pivotal cybersecurity domains, providing a thorough overview of cyber warfare.The book begins by unraveling the tapestry of today's cyber landscape, exploring current threats, implementation strategies, and notable trends. From operational security triumphs to poignant case studies of failures, readers gain valuable insights through real-world case studies.

The book delves into the force-multiplying potential of the Information Warfare component, exploring its role in offensive cyber operations. From deciphering programming languages, tools, and frameworks to practical insights on setting up your own malware lab, this book equips readers with hands-on knowledge.

The subsequent chapters will immerse you in the world of proof-of-concept evasive malware and master the art of evasive adversarial tradecraft. Concluding with a forward-looking perspective, the book explores emerging threats and trends, making it an essential read for anyone passionate about understanding and navigating the complex terrain of cyber conflicts.

What you will learn:
- Explore historical insights into cyber conflicts, hacktivism, and notable asymmetric events
- Gain a concise overview of cyberwarfare, extracting key lessons from historical conflicts
- Dive into current cyber threats, dissecting their implementation strategies
- Navigate adversarial techniques and environments for a solid foundation and establish a robust malware development environment.

Chapter 1 provides a lengthy overview of multiple personalities, including but not limited to, Kevin Mitnick, The Jester, Anonymous, David Kee Crees, and Stephen Watt and Albert Gonzalez. It serves as a brief overview of various cyber conflicts and notable cybercrime organizations, as well as online protest and hacktivist groups spanning more than four decades.

Chapter 2 covers notable threats and trends, starting with data collection and data brokers and misinformation.

Chapter 3 starts the reader's training with emerging and existing tooling aiding in Operational Security (OPSEC). It is supported by historical case studies of threat actors and their mistakes and includes a guide on reliably destroying data on Solid-State Drives. The chapter concludes with an introduction and walkthrough of the Shufflecake Framework, an experimental framework for hiding data behind multiple encrypted faux partitions on any digital storage medium.

Chapter 4 argues that the Information Warfare Component of Cyberwarfare is crucial, with many cited examples of domestic and foreign campaigns of influence.

Chapter 5 starts the reader's technical training on ideal programming languages for writing evasive implants. The premise is that operators must understand multiple languages, from scripting and intermediate-level languages to deploy fileless malware and stagers to drop compiled final-stage implants written in C/C++, Golang, Rust, or Nim. The chapter also covers code-obfuscation fundamentals to make implants more difficult to reverse-engineer.

Chapter 6 provides a guide to building an evasive malware development environment. It also includes instructions on setting up and configuring the tools necessary for extensive unit-testing required for evasive implants targeting specific operating systems (Windows) and for creating the monitored environment as a target box.

Chapter 7 marks the beginning of writing a basic evasive implant, drawing elements from my training at Sektor7 using source code templates. It uses Havoc C2 as its primary beacon, and the implant is capable of neutering Sysmon and Eventlog Tracing for Windows.

Chapter 8 provides an introductory-level overview of evasion techniques to make life more difficult for pursuers, including sanitizing LNK file format loaders of forensic identifiers, VPN-Chaining attack traffic across multiple jurisdictions, and obfuscation principles.

Chapter 9 is a revisit of social issues today, with content intentionally targeted towards lawmakers and legislators. The issues include Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, along with their ethical implications, as well as privacy matters discussed in the United States Congress today.

Who is this book for?
This book is designed to cater to a diverse audience, including cyber operators seeking skill enhancement, computer science students exploring practical applications, and penetration testers and red teamers refining offensive and defensive capabilities.

It is valuable for privacy advocates, lawyers, lawmakers, and legislators navigating the legal and regulatory aspects of cyber conflicts. Additionally, tech workers in the broader industry will find it beneficial to stay informed about evolving threats.