Security firm FireEye released yesterday a report on the activity of filo-Russian disinformation focussed group Ghostwriter. According to FireEye’s report, the group seems to have upped its game since it first started operating in 2017, and has now begun hacking the content management systems of news organisations.
Generally aimed at undermining NATO, the hacking campaign has been spreading fake news about NATO soldiers spreading coronavirus, a planned invasion of Belarus and US military aggression.
Although yet unable to identify the individuals behind the operation, FireEye has been able to track these activities to a defined group of actors, indicating a unified disinformation effort.
