Prolific Western government contractor Torchlight, staffed by British military and intelligence veterans, has covertly trained "commercial and government clients" the world over in Government Communications Headquarters' (GCHQ) digital espionage and cyberwar strategies. Cloak-and-dagger techniques to "discredit, disrupt, delay, deny, degrade, and deter" target adversaries and populations, honed for kinetic and psychological warfare and regime change overseas, have become a commodity, open for unregulated use by undisclosed private sector and state actors. Central to these efforts was GCHQ journeyman Andrew Tremlett, [who served] as Torchlight's head of digital intelligence. Tremlett "spent a significant portion of his career" within GCHQ's notorious Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group (JTRIG). Exposed by NSA leaker Edward Snowden in 2014, this shadowy unit plays a "major part" in GCHQ's activities. This includes cyberattacks and propaganda efforts, such as pushing "mass messaging" against target countries, organizations, groups and individuals via social media platforms. "False-flag" connivances, in which JTRIG conducts malign actions designed to appear as if an adversary was responsible, is also a core component of the unit's remit. [A] leaked JTRIG presentation makes repeated references to planting information on "compromised" target devices, including "potential 'damming' [sic] information."