It's obvious that in recent years the leadership of most terror groups have become aware or were killed because they had an electronic footprint and could be tagged as targets. More and more these groups implement Missile Warning Systems and professional advanced countermeasures to prevent or disrupt the possibility of electronic footprints.
OSINT capabilities to gather electronic footprints seem strong. At least thousands of intelligence amateurs confirm that trawling social media and filtering networks for valued information creates a self-sustaining 'business'.
Creating a chaotic mix of information that:
- is already available because 'remember' that's why its called OSINT
- is created, induced, or leaked by 'professionals' to manipulate actors and reporters to confirm 'facts'
- is alleged, reported, interpreted, and analyzed by media, witnesses, spokespersons, officials, and experts
Military and counter-terrorism
SOCOM, Military Intelligence professionals, that 'task network', determine 'valued' targets by integrating OSINT and HACKING with HUMINT and TECHINT into a 'Cloudular Network'. Giving special operation units access to (live) data streams to monitor and eliminate targets in their zone.
Not linear but cloudular
This means one asset will lead to others quickly and efficiently as we pull the various threads of information allowing clients to move in many directions at the same time, apply their AI Artificial Intelligence model, or follow one specific aspect if required.
Anti money laundering
Criminals hide their actions through a series of steps that make it look like money that came from illegal or unethical sources is earned legitimately.
Banks are shifting from rule-based software systems to Artificial Intelligence based systems which are more robust and intelligent to the patterns of (anti-) money laundering. To understand customer behavior Anti-Financial Crime Solutions use unsupervised learning techniques to drive intelligence gathering, investigations, and possible SAR filings.
Financing or funding terrorism groups can be researched by AI-FININT program, namely:
- Kidnapping for ransom (cash-based transfers), extortion (cash-based transfers), drug- and human trafficking, and smuggling
- ID theft, credit card fraud, falsifications, trade-based money laundering (e.g. export and or used assets)
- Private donations and fundraising
- Misuse charitable organizations
- State sponsorship
- determine terrorist groups' logistics chains and supporters to identify nodes and support cells.
- identify the security and financial practices and people that terrorist groups apply to visitors to their battlegrounds such as journalists, businessmen, and recruits
- determine terrorist’s travel profiles, travel operations, and patterns of travel to the US, Europe, North Africa, Asia, and the Middle East
- provide electronic footprint on all aspects of the particular groups/individuals in Syria, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Libya, and elsewhere as available
- develop additional assets to meet requirements as tasked
It appears that Baghdadi enforced 100% countermeasures to prevent all forms of identification through electronic footprints. Which until recently made it impossible to tag him for a precision strike. Developing HUMINT Inside his eco-system remained the only viable option to eventually tag him.
Turkey and the Kurds have a fast amount of HUMINT on, and assets in, ISIS. An ongoing AML Investigation into a financial nexus Terrorism - TOC (Transnational Organised Crime) revealed the connection of a human trafficker and a smuggler of armored cars in the logistics chains of ISIS and its leadership
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