China tends to respond to accusations of information operations in a recurring pattern. A recent example is the Ministry of State Security’s reaction to Australian espionage allegations, which once again reflected this established approach.

Singapore’s public attribution of cyber intrusions to UNC3886 marks a shift in its stance toward China, departing from past discretion. The move highlights the role of attribution as both technical evidence and strategic messaging. China’s swift counteraccusations illustrate a pattern in hostile influence, redirecting attention and reframing narratives to challenge Singapore’s position and shape international perception.

Between March and April 2025, Doublethink Lab identified a coordinated influence campaign on Threads involving 51 fake accounts posing as Taiwanese users, spreading anti-DPP narratives alongside sexually suggestive content. The operation showed signs of outsourced amplification, blending political messaging with dating spam.

Examiniation of a recent VIGINUM report (June 2025), which analyzes the activities and organizational structure of the "African Initiative," an organization operating across several African countries.

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.

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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...

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