Safe Mode DC Groups Village - DC644 Tijuana
DC644 Tijuana discusses espionage tradecraft, threat actor operations, and intelligence gathering techniques.
Summary
Members of DEF CON Group DC644 (Tijuana, Mexico) share investigative case studies and counter-surveillance insights from northern Mexico in the DC Groups Village [00:00, 00:04].
The speakers recount technical operations tracking malicious insider threats within criminal cartels, detailing how rogue actors operated within telecommunications networks [02:44]. They demonstrate tactical offensive methods utilized during investigations, such as deploying captive portal clones spoofing regional Mexican telecom carriers (Telnor, Telmex, and Telcel) [08:17] and packaging cross-platform payloads using tools like Platypus to establish macOS backdoors [11:00]. The talk concludes with reflections on digital civil liberties, highlighting the proliferation of government spyware operations targeting journalists, political candidates, and human rights defenders across the region [13:22].
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