OSINT Ukraine

  UN: Half of North Korea's foreign currency income comes from cyberattacks forklog.com March 21, 2024 View Original About half of North Korea's foreign currency income comes from cyberattacks, including on cryptocurrency companies.  Yonhap  writes about this  with reference to a report by the UN Security Council. According to the organization’s calculations, from 2017 to 2023, North Korean hackers caused damage equivalent to $3 billion. These funds were subsequently used to finance the development of weapons of mass destruction. These estimates are consistent with previously presented calculations by  Recorded Future  specialists , as well as with the conclusions of  The Wall Street Journal  . ...

  Kremlin bots are massively pretending to be Latvians and calling for the licenses of hockey players who performed in the Russian Federation to be returned theins.ru View Original Bots that conduct pro-Russian and anti-Ukrainian propaganda on social networks “speak” in Latvian, a researcher of Russian “troll factories” on Twitter and the founder of the “Bot Blocker” account (  antibot4navalny  ) told The Insider. One of the first to notice this was a user of this social network  @OleksGurianov  . Their activity is connected with  the news  that the Latvian Hockey Federation (LHF) has suspended the licenses of Latvian athletes who took part in the “Future Games” as part of the BalticSelect team, which took place in Kazan. Some of them played for the national team of this country. Bots spread short messages on Twitter with the following content: “It’s sad that our athletes’ careers have been ruined. We must support them!” “Why do we make our athletes su...

  Kremlin bots are massively pretending to be Latvians and calling for the licenses of hockey players who performed in the Russian Federation to be returned theins.ru View Original Bots that conduct pro-Russian and anti-Ukrainian propaganda on social networks “speak” in Latvian, a researcher of Russian “troll factories” on Twitter and the founder of the “Bot Blocker” account (  antibot4navalny  ) told The Insider. One of the first to notice this was a user of this social network  @OleksGurianov  . Their activity is connected with  the news  that the Latvian Hockey Federation (LHF) has suspended the licenses of Latvian athletes who took part in the “Future Games” as part of the BalticSelect team, which took place in Kazan. Some of them played for the national team of this country. Bots spread short messages on Twitter with the following content: “It’s sad that our athletes’ careers have been ruined. We must support them!” “Why do we make our athletes su...

  Kremlin bots are massively pretending to be Latvians and calling for the licenses of hockey players who performed in the Russian Federation to be returned theins.ru View Original Bots that conduct pro-Russian and anti-Ukrainian propaganda on social networks “speak” in Latvian, a researcher of Russian “troll factories” on Twitter and the founder of the “Bot Blocker” account (  antibot4navalny  ) told The Insider. One of the first to notice this was a user of this social network  @OleksGurianov  . Their activity is connected with  the news  that the Latvian Hockey Federation (LHF) has suspended the licenses of Latvian athletes who took part in the “Future Games” as part of the BalticSelect team, which took place in Kazan. Some of them played for the national team of this country. Bots spread short messages on Twitter with the following content: “It’s sad that our athletes’ careers have been ruined. We must support them!” “Why do we make our athletes su...

  Putin fans or Kremlin bots? re-russia.net 20 min View Original If, when communicating on a social network or simply scrolling through your feed, you believe that you are observing a cross-section of society and its reaction to current events, then you are deeply mistaken and fall into a specially set trap. Social networks have long ceased to be a space of pure freedom; they are now flooded with an army of trolls, bots and paid influencers who make up the infrastructure of online political astroturfing. This concept originated in the USA in the mid-1980s and goes back to the name of the company AstroTurf, which supplied stadium surfaces that imitate natural grass (grassroots). In the same way, social or political astroturfing is an imitation of grassroot...