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The devil is in the details
Russian propaganda and fakes pose a threat to the whole world
Fakes and propaganda often imperceptibly penetrate the news feed and social networks, shaping people's thoughts, or doubts, or emotions. When this is repeated in a circle, a person inevitably becomes a carrier of the "information virus", regardless of position, status and profession. The only thing that can save her from this is to rely on facts and evidence. But it is important to determine their source.
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Romanian intelligence has data on Russian interference in the presidential election
Documents on interference in the presidential election are released in Romania. Intelligence suggests that the kremlin is behind the crime, but local analysts point to the contrary.During the election campaign, identical messages were actively spread on social media and influencers were involved. The operation itself was carried out from ‘external locations’ to circumvent restrictions.
According to the BBC, this is stated in the investigation documents released by Romanian President Klaus Iohannis.
Intelligence officers also found that one TikTok account paid $381,000 to users who campaigned for a pro-russian candidate in just one month, starting on 24 October. In addition, data for accessing election websites were stolen from genuine users and published ‘on the platforms of cybercriminals originating from russia.
TikTok is suspected of criminally ignoring fake accounts before the Romanian elections
The social network's CEO is being summoned to the European Parliament to explain the role of the platform in the Romanian presidential election. A Politico article quoting the head of the liberal group Renew Europe, Valerie Haier, states that TikTok's management must prove the platform's transparency and compliance with the Digital Services Act.
According to Keita Kili, coordinator of the Bulgarian-Romanian Digital Media Observatory, the platform had a ‘significant impact’ during the first round of elections, as TikTok's rule banning paid political advertising was ‘largely ineffective’.
It is worth noting that the far-right and pro-russian candidate Kelin Georgescu won the first round of the election. He had no party support and was not among the favourites in opinion polls.
Russian cybercriminals target European and American users
The russian-controlled RomCom group, known as Storm-0978, Tropical Scorpius or UNC259, exploited vulnerabilities in Mozilla and Windows products to carry out the hacking attacks.According to cybersecurity researchers from ESET, the criminals' goal was to gain hidden remote access to computers to install malware on them.
ESET also found that the number of potential victims of the RomCom cybercrime campaign between 10 October and 4 November 2024 ranged from one victim to 250 per country.
In 2024, RomCom carried out cyberattacks on government agencies, the defence and energy sectors in Ukraine, the pharmaceutical and insurance sectors in the United States, the legal sector in Germany, and government organisations in Europe.
Russians are training new propagandists in Africa
Russian intelligence services in the Malian capital, Bamako, have organised so-called "journalism schools" for future fake newsmakers, and promised the best of them jobs. According to Le Monde, 60 Malian "journalists" are being trained by the "African Initiative" and "Agence de presse", both controlled by the kremlin's intelligence services.
The article notes that the selection of the ‘students’ was carried out by a Malian journalist and influencer with pro-russian views, Robert Dissa, who had previously visited moscow and the temporarily occupied Mariupol. In addition, the lecture involved the russian Mikhail Pozdnyakov, the head of the French editorial office of "Agence de Presse".
Russia regularly transfers weapons to third countries for acts of aggression
The Wall Street Journal recently reported that about 70 percent of the weapons found in the possession of the Hezbollah terrorist group during Israel's military operation in southern Lebanon were russian-made. According to the markings on some of the samples, the weapons came from Syria. One of the missiles had a label in russian stating that it had been transferred to the Syrian Ministry of Defence.
As IDF experts found out, some of the russian weapons were manufactured in 2020 and sent to southern Lebanon. Other samples, according to the markings, were produced in the 1980s. putin, when providing weapons to Assad, knew full well that they could fall into the hands of Hezbollah. But this eloquently confirms the kremlin's strategy of increasing chaos in all regions of the world. Earlier, we wrote about an investigation that confirmed russian arms supplies to the Yemeni Houthis, as well as the kremlin's strategic cooperation agreement with North Korea.
Viktor Orbán continues to manipulate the issue of Russian energy carriers
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has called for a review of the European Union's sanctions against russia over energy prices. Similar calls from a number of European politicians at various levels are regularly published by the russian media.In this way, kremlin propaganda tries to convince European communities that refusal from russian energy carriers will primarily affect ordinary Europeans. They will "suffer", "freeze", and "pay more".
But the truth is that no European country that has refused to cooperate with Gazprom has seen prices rise. The underground storage facilities are full and Europe will get through the next winter without any problems. Only those few countries that did not want to give up russian gas after the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine have problems and have additional difficulties with supplies and payments. That is why Orban's calls for a review of sanctions are not viable.
Agents of the Russian special services were detained in Poland
Game agents were detained in Poland on suspicion of preparing terrorist attacks on international flights. Criminals were preparing to set fire to parcels on board cargo and passenger planes bound for the USA and Canada.
The Financial Times writes that the Polish prosecutor's office has issued international arrest warrants for two more people suspected of involvement in the preparation of sabotage. By the way, earlier the Lithuanian police arrested a suspect in sending four explosive devices, in particular through the DHL company in Vilnius. The detainee introduced himself as Igor Prudnikov, but the investigation found out that his real name is Alexander Suranovas, and he acted for the benefit of the special services of the kremlin.
A blogger from the USA spread pre-election fakes for Russian money
An American registered on the X social network under the nickname AlphaFox78 published a fake video where a Haitian immigrant claimed to have voted at least twice in Georgia for Vice President Kamala Harris. As stated in the CNN investigation, the propagandist-podcaster Simeon Boykov paid for this publication him 100 dollars.
In addition, it was established that a russian agent paid $100 each at least 10 times for the publication of memes and videos on the AlphaFox78 account.
In this way, another method of disinformation during the elections was revealed - the creation and distribution of fake videos by influential bloggers. russians target influencers, or rather their followers. Also, according to US intelligence, the stories that Boykov and AlphaFox shared on their pages originated from a russian disinformation campaign called Storm-1516.
The Kremlin's anti-Israel rhetoric is reinforced by the arming of Jerusalem's opponents
In parallel with the spread of anti-Israel "truth" in the world, moscow is actively helping Israel's enemies with military means. The Wall Street Journal published an investigation (https://www.wsj.com/world/russia-provided-targeting-data-for-houthi-assault-on-global-shipping-eabc2c2b?st=HtmFp4) that in early 2024, russia provided the Yemeni Houthis (a Shia-Zaydi terrorist paramilitary group operating in Yemen) with satellite data that they used to attack Western ships in the Red Sea.
At the end of September, Reuters reported that russia may hand over Yakhont anti-ship missiles to the Houthis, and Iran is mediating the negotiations. In turn, UN experts in their reports repeatedly talked about attempts to smuggle russian Kornet anti-tank guided missiles, AKS20U assault rifles, etc. to Yemen.
Iran, which hates Israel, was involved in this scheme.It will be recalled that moscow never officially condemned the attack by Hamas against Israel on October 7, 2023. On the contrary, two weeks after the attack, russia vetoed a UN Security Council resolution condemning the militants. And this despite the fact that among the hostages of Hamas were citizens of the russian Federation.The kremlin claims leadership in that part of the Global South that denies Israel's right to exist. And it seems that the anti-Israel policy of the russians will only deepen. In September, putin ordered the signing of a strategic partnership agreement between russia and Iran.
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