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Cyber Mercenaries Are Hacking Elections Globally Here s an Example of How They Do It

A team of reporters uncovers 'Team Jorge', a group which claims to have worked on dozens of presidential elections around the world. It employs disinformation campaigns, false intelligence, hacks and blackmail to promote its clients’ interests. 

How secret cyber mercenaries disrupt elections?

Undercover reporters recorded a group of covert cyber influence specialists as they pitched their services, which involve using disinformation campaigns,

Axis of Disinformation: Propaganda from Iran, Russia, and China on COVID-19

Brief Analysis China, Russia, and Iran are currently exploiting COVID-19 to conduct information warfare, specifically targeting the Middle East. In January 2020, Russia’s state-owned Sputnik news agency published an article alleging that the then-emerging COVID-19 virus was “probably made in NATO labs.” Since then, U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM)’s Information Operations Division the U.S. Department of Defense’s flagship organization for countering propaganda and disinformation has noticed an onslaught of pandemic-related propaganda and disinformation from Russian, Iranian, and Chinese sources. Generally, these propaganda efforts have used the COVID-19 pandemic to target the United States and its partners. And while this disinformation campaign has rolled out on a global scale, it has focused heavily on the Middle East.

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