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FBI disrupts 1,000 Russian bots spreading disinformation on X
The bot farm was built by a Russian state-sponsored media to spread misinformation in and about a number of countries.
A covert Russian government-operated social media bot farm that used generative AI to spread disinformation to global users has been disrupted by a joint FBI-international cybersecurity forces operation. To avoid detection, the actors implemented a number of obfuscation techniques that included IP masking, bypassing dual-factor authentication, and changing the user agent string. “Operators avoid detection by using a backend code designed to auto-assign a proxy IP address to the AI-generated persona based on their assumed location,” the advisory added.
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