Canadian intelligence flags Russian disinformation campaigns amid Ukraine war – National
Canada’s digital espionage company is warning that Russian state-backed actors are seeding on-line disinformation across the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine.
Whereas the information comes as no shock to these conversant in Russian data warfare ways, publicly releasing an evaluation based mostly on categorised intelligence gathering is an uncommon step for the Communications Safety Institution.
“Since Russia’s brazen and unjustifiable invasion of Ukraine, we’ve noticed quite a few Russia-backed disinformation campaigns on-line designed to assist their actions,” the company wrote in a sequence of tweets Friday morning.
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The CSE specified the alleged disinformation storylines: that Ukrainian authorities had been harvesting organs from fallen troopers and civilians, and that Russian troops had been solely attacking army targets of their “particular operation” on Ukrainian soil.
The company additionally recognized, “Russia’s efforts to advertise tales that falsely categorize Russian protesters and residents against invasion as supporting neo-Nazis and genocide.”
The CSE mentioned it’s sharing the intelligence to assist Canadians defend themselves from Russian disinformation, which is unfold on social media and with the help of pseudo-journalists and fewer respected web sites.
Extra to come back.
