Ukraine takes out Russian bot farm

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https://cybernews.com/cyber-war/ukraine-crackdown-russian-bot-farm/


Ukrainian police have seized computer equipment, mobile phones, and thousands of SIM cards after exposing more than 100 people suspected of running online propaganda and misinformation campaigns from the cities of Lviv, Vinnytsia, and Zaporizhzhia.
Cyber police in Ukraine believe the attackers used special equipment and software to register thousands of bot accounts across varying social networks so they could launch illegal content promoting Russia’s invasion.
The Cyber Police of Ukraine said Russian digital partisans “used fake accounts in social networks to conduct information and psychological operations of the aggressor, justify the actions of the occupiers, and distribute illegal content.”
As well as that, the police claim the Russian cyber agents also distributed personal data of targeted victims and ran online fraud campaigns.
 
Illegal content being anything the Regime does not want said, but we are fighting for democracy.

BARF
 
https://cybernews.com/cyber-war/pro-russian-bot-farm-busted-in-ukraine/



Investigators say the “Botoferma” had at least 4,000 fake social media accounts made to look like the accounts of ordinary citizens of Ukraine.
The bots were used to troll social media platforms, publish fake posts, and leave comments on other posts and profile accounts, badmouthing the Defense Forces of Ukraine while justifying the armed aggression of the Russian Federation, police said.
The Botoferma was used to “inform public opinion among Ukrainians in the interests of the enemy, and destabilize the socio-political situation in the country,” cybercrime investigators said.
 
evince said:
https://cybernews.com/cyber-war/ukraine-crackdown-russian-bot-farm/


Ukrainian police have seized computer equipment, mobile phones, and thousands of SIM cards after exposing more than 100 people suspected of running online propaganda and misinformation campaigns from the cities of Lviv, Vinnytsia, and Zaporizhzhia.
Cyber police in Ukraine believe the attackers used special equipment and software to register thousands of bot accounts across varying social networks so they could launch illegal content promoting Russia’s invasion.
The Cyber Police of Ukraine said Russian digital partisans “used fake accounts in social networks to conduct information and psychological operations of the aggressor, justify the actions of the occupiers, and distribute illegal content.”
As well as that, the police claim the Russian cyber agents also distributed personal data of targeted victims and ran online fraud campaigns.
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Awesome! That's quite an intelligence coup!
 
evince said:
https://cybernews.com/cyber-war/ukraine-crackdown-russian-bot-farm/


Ukrainian police have seized computer equipment, mobile phones, and thousands of SIM cards after exposing more than 100 people suspected of running online propaganda and misinformation campaigns from the cities of Lviv, Vinnytsia, and Zaporizhzhia.
Cyber police in Ukraine believe the attackers used special equipment and software to register thousands of bot accounts across varying social networks so they could launch illegal content promoting Russia’s invasion.
The Cyber Police of Ukraine said Russian digital partisans “used fake accounts in social networks to conduct information and psychological operations of the aggressor, justify the actions of the occupiers, and distribute illegal content.”
As well as that, the police claim the Russian cyber agents also distributed personal data of targeted victims and ran online fraud campaigns.
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Interesting. Let's see if Tinkerpeach disappears.
 
The money wasn’t bad, but the work was demanding: posting up to 120 comments a day, over an 11-hour shift -- in chat rooms, on websites, and in social-media profiles belonging to specific Russian-language news outlets such as the independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta and RFE/RL’s Russian Service.

“There were people who really flew at [the work] with enthusiasm, and then some who came to work just realizing that all they were doing was nonsense,” Sergei K., a former employee of a Russian company that became known as the “Russian troll factory,” told RFE/RL in an interview.

Such was life at the St. Petersburg firm whose registered name used to be the Internet Research Agency and which earned its moniker by pumping out conspiracy theories, half-truths, trolling social-media posts, and other misinformation.

Owned by a St. Petersburg businessman named Yevgeny Prigozhin, the operation gained international infamy when it was specifically identified in the 2017 U.S. intelligence report on Russian efforts to interfere in the previous year’s presidential election.

“Masquerading as Americans, these operatives used targeted advertisements, intentionally falsified news articles, self-generated content, and social-media platform tools to interact with and attempt to deceive tens of millions of social-media users in the United States,” a follow-up report by the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee said.
 
evince said:
The money wasn’t bad, but the work was demanding: posting up to 120 comments a day, over an 11-hour shift -- in chat rooms, on websites, and in social-media profiles belonging to specific Russian-language news outlets such as the independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta and RFE/RL’s Russian Service.

“There were people who really flew at [the work] with enthusiasm, and then some who came to work just realizing that all they were doing was nonsense,” Sergei K., a former employee of a Russian company that became known as the “Russian troll factory,” told RFE/RL in an interview.

Such was life at the St. Petersburg firm whose registered name used to be the Internet Research Agency and which earned its moniker by pumping out conspiracy theories, half-truths, trolling social-media posts, and other misinformation.

Owned by a St. Petersburg businessman named Yevgeny Prigozhin, the operation gained international infamy when it was specifically identified in the 2017 U.S. intelligence report on Russian efforts to interfere in the previous year’s presidential election.

“Masquerading as Americans, these operatives used targeted advertisements, intentionally falsified news articles, self-generated content, and social-media platform tools to interact with and attempt to deceive tens of millions of social-media users in the United States,” a follow-up report by the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee said.
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Yevgeny Prigozhin
 
The US Treasury Department sanctioned the IRA in 2018, accusing it of having “created and managed a vast number of fake online personas that posed as legitimate US persons to include grassroots organizations, interest groups, and a state political party on social media.”

“Through this activity, the IRA posted thousands of ads that reached millions of people online. The IRA also organized and coordinated political rallies during the run-up to the 2016 election, all while hiding its Russian identity. Further, the IRA unlawfully utilized personally identifiable information from US persons to open financial accounts to help fund IRA operations.”
 
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