Cybersecurity Association - Fireside Chat : Proxies & Pixels: Hybrid Operations through the Digital Domain

A fireside chat on proxy networks, attribution challenges and national definitions of hybrid activities.

What we’ll explore:

• The SkyECC takedown: what it revealed about encrypted platforms, law enforcement capabilities, and criminal adaptability
• Follow the money: how organised crime actors enable hybrid threats and geopolitical destabilisation through cyber means
• 2.0 and beta battlefields: emerging tactics, tools, and policy challenges in countering proxy-driven operations IRL

Expert in Transnational Organised Crime, Lieutenant Colonel Grégory Frutos has developed a career spanning across operational command, academic teaching and strategic research. His experience combines hands-on counter-crime operations with academic and strategic analysis, positioning him as a homeland security advisor and hybrid threat specialist at the General Directorate for International Relations and Strategy.