Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group
The Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group is a unit of GCHQ, the British signals intelligence organisation, involved in cyber-attacks and online propaganda operations.[1]
Its existence was revealed in February 2014 by NBC News citing documents leaked by the former US National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden.[1]
JTRIG 'Operation methods/techniques'. Screengrab from Mandeep Dhami Behavioural Science Support for JTRIG’S Effects and Online HUMINT Operations DSTL, 10 March 2011, Top Secret. p. 9.
History
Activities
JTRIG 'Effects capability' from 'JTRIG tools and techniques' GCWiki Top Secret. p. 5.
People
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Resources
- Mandeep Dhami Behavioural Science Support for JTRIG’S Effects and Online HUMINT Operations DSTL, 10 March 2011, Top Secret.
- Glenn Greenwald HOW COVERT AGENTS INFILTRATE THE INTERNET TO MANIPULATE, DECEIVE, AND DESTROY REPUTATIONS The Intercept Feb. 24 2014, 11:25 p.m.
- Glenn Greenwald HACKING ONLINE POLLS AND OTHER WAYS BRITISH SPIES SEEK TO CONTROL THE INTERNET The Intercept July 14 2014, 5:38 p.m.
- Glenn Greenwald, Andrew Fishman CONTROVERSIAL GCHQ UNIT ENGAGED IN DOMESTIC LAW ENFORCEMENT, ONLINE PROPAGANDA, PSYCHOLOGY RESEARCH The Intercept June 22 2015, 12:03 p.m.
- Cyber Integration: The Art of the Possible, JTRIG, 2012, Top Secret.
- Full-Spectrum Cyber Effects JTRIG, 2010, Top Secret.
- Operational Highlights, August 2009 JTRIG, Top Secret.
- JTRIG Tools and Techniques GCHQ, 5 July 2012, Top Secret.
- OP Highland Fling - Event Log GCHQ, 19 January 2011, Top Secret.
- Psychology: A New Kind of SIGDEV GCHQ, 2012, Top Secret.
- Hacktivism: Online Covert Action JTRIG, 2012, Top Secret.
- A Potential Technique to Deanonymise Users of the Tor Network GCHQ, 13 June 2011, Top Secret.
- A Potential Technique to Deanonymise Users of the Tor Network - Slides GCHQ, 2011, Top Secret.
- What is HACIENDA? JTRIG, 2010, Top Secret.British Spies Used a URL Shortener to Honeypot Arab Spring Dissidents
- Mustafa Al-Bassam Jul 29 2016, 11:00am https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/78kw7z/gchq-url-shortener-twitter-honeypot-arab-spring
- a Twitter thread on a paper given in December on this work: https://twitter.com/josephfcox/status/945998194957344768
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Matthew Cole, Richard Esposito, Mark Schone and Glenn Greenwald, Snowden Docs: British Spies Used Sex and 'Dirty Tricks', NBC News, 7 February 2014.