The EU Horizon project ADAC.io aims to support the defender community in strengthening capabilities and methodologies related to the ongoing work of attributing information influence operations.
This report addresses key challenges and presents generalisable principal issues that need to be considered when making decisions that impact upon attribution investigations and research using open-source data.
Authored by Martin Innes and Anneli Ahonen at the Crime and Intelligence Innovation Institute at Cardiff University.
This report was designed to be read in conjunction with a companion piece authored by researchers at Lund University (Titled: A Framework for Attribution of Information Influence Operations), avaliable here.