February 8, 2025 - The “Large Scale Social Deception” (LSD) wording indicates an initiative that may involve coordinated narrative control, online influence campaigns, and mass persuasion tactics.

February 13, 2025 - That is not a different contract, nor does it reference MDM or any form of Deception Activity either. LSSD was a proposal within the ASED program to do simulated cyber attacks for red team analysis to support the ASED programs developments.

February 6, 2025 - The “Large Scale Social Deception” (LSD) wording indicates an initiative that may involve coordinated narrative control, online influence campaigns, and mass persuasion tactics.

February 14, 2025 - The term "Large Scale Social Deception" was the name of the "red team" proposal, DARPA said, referring to work by Thomson Reuters Special Services to simulate an adversarial attack by pretending to be the enemy.

Can someone explain to me why the Department of Defense provided $9,147,532.00 to Reuters for "ACTIVE SOCIAL ENGINEERING DEFENSE (ASED) LARGE SCALE SOCIAL DECEPTION (LSD)"

February 13, 2025 - It wasn’t the Reuters newsroom that worked on this contract, but a special investigative corporate subsidiary called Thomson Reuters Special Services. While the contract purports to develop defenses against sophisticated phishing attacks from adversaries, research documents from the project ...

The Active Social Engineering Defense (ASED) program aims to develop the core technology to enable the capability to automatically identify, disrupt, and investigate social engineering attacks.

On 11/22/17 Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency issued Presolicitation HR001117S0050 for Active Social Engineering Defense (ASED) due 11/28/17

Active Social Engineering Defense (ASED): DARPA is soliciting innovative research proposals in the area of automated defense against social engineering attacks. Proposed research should investigate innovative approaches that enable revolutionary advances in science, devices, or systems.

July 23, 2025 - ASED uses a mix of regulations, education, and technology to lessen the threat posed by social engineering attacks. This kind of security is also known as social identity management or human element security.

Uncharted created ReCourse, a novel mixed-initiative platform to scalably coordinate, monitor and selectively moderate automated, conversational, enterprise-scale bots for defense against social engineering attacks. ReCourse combined advanced analytics with intuitive and scalable visualizations of activity to deliver threat awareness and unprecedented capability to evaluate and shape bot tactics at the global enterprise level. A human-in-the-loop system was designed to ensure ongoing adaptation to changes in adversarial tactics, and elimination of false positives, ultimately achieving dramatically improved success rates in the defense against social engineering.

July 3, 2020 - An official website of the United States government · Uncharted created ReCourse, a novel mixed-initiative platform to scalably coordinate, monitor and selectively moderate automated, conversational, enterprise-scale bots for defense against social engineering attacks. ReCourse combined advanced analytics with intuitive and scalable visualizations of activity to deliver threat awareness and unprecedented capability to evaluate and shape bot tactics at the global enterprise level. A human-in-the-loop system was designed to ensure ongoing adaptation to changes in adversarial tactics, and elimination of false positives, ultimately achieving dramatically improved success rates in the defense against social engineering

Many, including Musk, were in outrage at the contracts awarded to Reuters that were labeled as Active Social Engineering and Large Scale Social Deception (LSD) in DoD contracts.

February 13, 2025 - The description of the multi-million-dollar contract that ran from Sept. 2018 through Nov. 2022 is listed as 'Active Social Engineering Defense (ASED) Large Scale Social Deception (LSD)'

February 13, 2025 - The scrutiny of this contract, ... DECEPTION (LSD)” comes as Musk has spearheaded an effort to cut waste from government agencies called the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE....

February 7, 2025 - “The Active Social Engineering Defense (ASED) program aims to develop the core technology to enable the capability to automatically identify, disrupt, and investigate social engineering attacks.

February 14, 2025 - The scrutiny of this contract, ... DECEPTION (LSD)” comes as Musk has spearheaded an effort to cut waste from government agencies called the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE....

February 14, 2025 - The USAspending.gov website shows Thomson Reuters Special Services (TRSS), and not Reuters News, as the recipient of the Department of Defense (DoD) contract for "ACTIVE SOCIAL ENGINEERING DEFENSE (ASED) LARGE SCALE SOCIAL DECEPTION (LSD)."