Meta’s latest Adversarial Threat Report details the detection and dismantling of three global Coor-dinated Inauthentic Behaviour (CIB) campaigns attributed to actors based in China, Iran, and Romania.

This week’s post highlights key findings from Beyond Operation Doppelgänger: A Capability Assessment of the Social Design Agency (Pamment & Tsurtsumia, 2025), published by the Psychological Defence Agency at Lund University. Drawing on over 3,100 leaked internal documents, the study offers new insights into the structure, strategy, and objectives of the Russian influence campaign known as “Doppelgänger.”

VIGINUM Report Storm-1516 is a coordinated Russian disinformation campaign targeting Western democracies. It uses AI, deepfakes, and fake media outlets—often distributed via the CopyCop network—and follows a five-phase operational model. Evidence points to potential links with GRU Unit 29155 and broader state-backed influence networks.

Anthropic uncovers and disrupts four coordinated influence operations in April 2025, run by a commercial "Influence-as-a-Service" provider. These AI-driven disinformation campaigns—unlinked to any specific state actor—underscore the rising threat of private sector influence operations in digital security, social media manipulation, and global information warfare.

This week on our blog, we are presenting a new report by ClearSkySec that highlights a compelling case of a long-term influence operation.

This week, we examine the recent developments involving the hackergroup "Codebreakers" and the Iranian Sepah Bank, which have surprisingly not made international headlines yet.

This week, we are also reviewing the latest VIGINUM report . While it presents few new insights, it offers a structured overview of key...

This week, we examine Norway’s most recent national threat assessment (1) , which delineates key developments and emerging dynamics...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the world at a rapid pace, increasingly shaping various aspects of life. With its...

The rapid advancement of AI-generated content has transformed the landscape of disinformation, making it harder than ever to detect and...

State-linked actors from Iran, China, and Russia use AI tools like Google’s Gemini to enhance disinformation and information operations...

A new report reveals how sanctioned Russian entities are exploiting Meta’s ad platform to spread state-sponsored propaganda. Despite...

Ahead of Germany’s 2025 federal election, 102 fake news websites were discovered spreading pro-Russian disinformation to influence public...

A new report by Iran International raises allegations against the Iranian IT company Parsian Afzar Rayan Borna. According to the report,...

A recent report by Taiwan's National Security Bureau illuminates the escalating influence operations (IO) conducted by the Chinese...

Meta’s shift from independent fact-checkers to user-driven “community notes” sparks debate over the effectiveness of moderating...

The U.S. Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned Beijing-based cybersecurity firm Integrity Tech , alleging...

Unclassified U.S. Department of the Treasury systems were breached through vulnerabilities in a contractor’s security system. Hackers...

A recent investigation by Snoop.ro sheds light on the role of influencer campaigns in Romanian politics. At the center is a...

The Moldovan Intelligence and Security Service (SIS) has published a report investigating Russian interference in the 2024 referendum on...