Mr. Ed Alcantara founded the first ever CyberHUMINT company in 2009, serving as CEO, where he later rebranded his company to BLACKOPS Cyber, Inc. (BOC Intel), in 2015, and holds the position of Chief Cyber Intelligence Officer (CCIO). Mr. Alcantara provides counter-terrorism support to law enforcement, military, and government agencies leveraging his proprietary CyberHUMINT tradecraft, and technological skills. Mr. Alcantara is a recognized CyberHUMINT and Offensive Counterintelligence (OFCO) Specialist, Subject Matter Expert (SME) Darknet. Mr. Alcantara has extensive experience and expertise in strategic covert cyber operations and implementation. He has a proven record of attribution and geo-location for capture of threat-actors worldwide. He developed more than two-hundred Darknet operatives with verifiable legends and has Infiltrated narcotic and weapons cartels, terrorist networks, cybercriminal organizations, human-trafficking, and APT groups. Mr. Alcantara built and manages the world’s largest CyberHUMINT and OFCO army on the Darknet and surface web.
Over the weekend, we were alerted to a significant spike from normal baseline of Twitter links being shared in terrorists WhatsApp group channels…
Facebook, WhatsApp, YouTube, Google, Twitter, Telegram etc.. have all been alerted (for years) to the enormous amount of extremist propaganda found on their platforms, yet they aren’t compelled to proactively monitor their platforms. Recently,…
End-to-end Encrypted (E2EE) Messaging has become the latest craze, but what does it really offer? The principle behind E2EE is that no one, not even the messaging app provider, should have access to the…
Cyberattacks and data breaches are part of our day-to-day life, so much so, that people have become desensitized to these events. In every case, the customers’ compromised data recompense is “credit monitoring, free for…
It can be argued that strong end-to-end encryption has been responsible for the trust that enables the internet economy that has revolutionized the way commerce is conducted, created tremendous wealth and enabled the spontaneous generation of knowledge economies across the world. Unfortunately, the same encryption technologies have created great difficulties for the law enforcement and … Read more
The DarkNet – Why It Matters to Everyone Think of the Internet as an iceberg. The Internet we use every day represents only 4% of the total Internet. The visible part is indexed and searchable by major search engines like Google and Bing. Lurking below the surface is the remaining part of the Internet called … Read more
