Prigozhin is dead, but his troll farms are alive and peddling disinformation
Live MintWASHINGTON—Russian trolls farms linked to Yevgeny Prigozhin remain active months after the mercenary chief died in a plane crash and are likely to continue peddling disinformation aimed at influencing opinions on the war in Ukraine and the 2024 U.S. elections, according to new cybersecurity research. Several distinct online influence campaigns with covert or financial links to the former paramilitary chief were active throughout 2023 and underwent subtle shifts in their targeting, Google’s Mandiant Intelligence unit said. A heavily redacted U.S. intelligence community report on foreign influence operations during the 2022 midterms released in December said that a “Prigozhin-linked organization worked to resurface sexual assault allegations" against President Biden. During the period between Prigozhin’s armed uprising in June and his death in August, Cyber Front Z sought to promote Wagner Group and its security role in several African countries and has continued to promote pro-Russia content related to the war since then, Google said.
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