Citizen Lab uncovers a 14-week campaign in Angola using AI-generated personas, deceptive posts, and a phantom news site to revamp state messaging.

In this research note, we examine the digital infrastructure of BlackCore, an Israeli influence-for-hire company. We describe how we identified a BlackCore campaign consisting of a training program pr...

Cyber agency says BlackCore targeted John Swinney, as well as interfering in New York and French elections

French PR firm Havas Media, which runs the lion’s share of Israel’s FARA-registered foreign influence work in the U.S., appears to have stood up an “institute” aimed at feeding LLMs positive informati...

A network of at least 123 websites operated from within the People’s Republic of China while posing as local news outlets in 30 countries across Europe, Asia, and Latin America, disseminates pro-Beiji...

In August 2019 a wave of websites and social media channels, called “HKLEAKS,” began “doxxing” the identities and personal information of pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong. While the creators of th...

Our latest threat report examines how malicious actors combine AI models with websites and social platforms—and what it means for detection and defense.

We found that former Member of the European Parliament Stelios Kouloglou was hacked with Pegasus spyware while serving on the PEGA committee, which investigated Pegasus and other spyware abuses in Eur...

We found that former Member of the European Parliament Stelios Kouloglou was hacked with Pegasus spyware while serving on the PEGA committee, which investigated Pegasus and other spyware abuses in Eur...

If a hostile state ran this sort of operation to swing our vote, we'd call it foreign interference. It's time we did.

Like a spy movie: Researchers from HPI and the University of Toronto reveal how surveillance actors exploit mobile networks to track people worldwide.

Two decades after conning New Zealand media outlets, Jake Sanders has re-emerged in Asia as a geopolitical commentator, media executive, ordained priest and the ‘Knight Commander’ of a religious order...