Ukraine busts bot farm spreading Russian infowar propaganda and fraud
Ukrainian cops have disrupted a massive bot farm with more than 100 operators allegedly spreading fake news about the Russian invasion, leaking personal information belonging to Ukrainian citizens, and instigating fraud schemes.
After conducting 21 searches, the country's cyber and national police seized computer equipment, mobile phones, more than 250 GSM gateways, and about 150,000 SIM cards. "The Cyber Police established that the attackers used special equipment and software to register thousands of bot accounts in various social networks and subsequently launch advertisements that violated the norms and legislation of Ukraine," according to machine translation of theInsiders in Vinnytsia, Zaporizhzhia, and Lviv were involved in the bot farm, we're told.
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