RE: The Greatest Military Social Engineering Attack Since The Trojan's Horse?

["Rivest, Philippe" <PRivest () transforce ca>]

Same for me. Here is what I got from my very quick lookup
http://www.liberation.fr/actualite/monde/336475.FR.php?rss=true&xtor=RSS-450

French:
Comme les otages séquestrés étaient divisés en trois groupes, l'armée,
invoquant grâce à ses agents infiltrés parmi les gardiens guérilleros un faux
ordre d'Alfonso Cano, le nouveau chef des Farc, a obtenu que les otages
soient réunis "soit-disant toujours sur ordre de Cano" par leurs geôliers et
que leur transfert se déroule dans un lieu du sud du pays.


English: (should be more or less accurate forgive me!)
Since the hostage were divided in 3 groups, the army, stating that since that
there infiltrated agent issued a false order to Alfonso Cano, the new leader
of FARC, got to unite the hostage "with the false order of Cano" by there
"**agents**" and that there transfer be made to a location in the south of
the country.


Well we all know that after the the helicopter took the hostage to a safe
place.


CNN states that:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/07/03/hostage.drama/index.html
+The agents gained the rebels' trust and rose to the top of FARC's
+leadership council as well as a team assigned to guard the hostages.

+When the time was ripe, the moles used the authority they'd gained within
+the group to order the 15 hostages moved from three separate locations to
+one central area, and the game was on

+Once the hostages -- including former presidential candidate Ingrid
+Betancourt and three American contractors -- were gathered, the agents
+ordered a 90-mile march through the steamy jungle, Montoya said


+The agents told their FARC comrades that an "international mission" -- such
+as the Red Cross or a U.N. delegation -- was coming to visit the hostages,
+Montoya said.


+The helicopter crew told the 60 or so real rebels that the chopper was
+going to ferry the hostages to the meeting with the "international
+mission," Montoya said.

+All 15 hostages were handcuffed and placed aboard the helicopter, along
+with two of their guards, leaving the rest of the FARC detachment on the
+ground.

+Once the chopper was up and safely away from the landing zone, the fake
+rebels persuaded the real ones aboard to hand them their weapons. Moments
+later, both rebels were on the floor of the aircraft, cuffed and
+blindfolded by their erstwhile comrades, Betancourt said


Merci / Thanks
Philippe Rivest, CEH
Vérificateur interne en sécurité de l'information
Courriel: Privest () transforce ca
Téléphone: (514) 331-4417
www.transforce.ca


-----Message d'origine-----
De : listbounce () securityfocus com [mailto:listbounce () securityfocus com] De la
part de Daniel I. Didier
Envoyé : 3 juillet 2008 11:04
À : Jon.Kibler () aset com; security-basics () securityfocus com
Objet : RE: The Greatest Military Social Engineering Attack Since The
Trojan's Horse?

Jon,
I'm interested in this topic but I don't know much about it.  Can you
share with us what you know about the social engineering aspects of this
attack?  I too am very interested.

Thanks,
Dan

www.NetSecureIA.com


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> By now I am sure you are all aware of the Columbian military's freeing
> of the FARC hostages. What I find most interesting is that this
appears
> to be a purely social engineering attack.
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> The English language media have not provided that much detail thus far
> about the social engineering aspects of the operation. If anyone has
> more information regarding how the rescue was social engineered,
please
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> Just based on what I have seen thus far, this may turn out to be one
of
> the greatest social engineering attacks in military history.
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