For the last three months my IT company, together with German partners, @bellingcat, DFLab and tens of twitter users have been literally in a state of open non violent bot army war and believe me they do exist and Russia is extremely good at using them for disinformation, propaganda, spamming and criminal hacking.
This has now reached a certain sophistication that is not normal on the part of Russian intel services so that one can actually use the term open info war fought 24 x 7 X 365 for the heart and soul of a society
Since the Russia infowar thread is closed I will post all links that are available on this thread as it does apply to malware, disinformation and propaganda and hacking all tied into one namely bots.
Enjoy the reading and hopefully one can learn what really Russian infowarfare looks like in the 21st century
https://medium.com/dfrlab/kremlin-an...e-2df4af60c749
https://www.propublica.org/article/p...harlottesville
http://www.moonofalabama.org/
IMPORTANT
https://twitter.com/conspirator0
https://medium.com/dfrlab/german-ele...d-84cc7a8dabd9
https://medium.com/dfrlab/german-ele...d-b218dd6d4b7f
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...oICKOGguA/edit
http://www.politico.com/magazine/sto...in-bots-215520
https://medium.com/@d1gi/can-electio...t-970d4b4ae430
https://medium.com/@d1gi/who-hacked-...n-43d4019f705f
https://medium.com/@d1gi/election201...s-a6c9281f5ef9
https://medium.com/@d1gi/the-electio...e-383449cc1fba
https://medium.com/dfrlab/from-russi...p-ae6ee4318b5b
.@Twitter bots in action - #Russian #informationwarfare methods designed for "easy exploitation - high impact"
http://bit.ly/2p3b30p
IoT malware clashes in a botnet territory battle
http://www.cio.com/article/3190179/s...y-battle.html#
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/6...tter-accounts/
Ref: arxiv.org/abs/1701.02405:
The “Star Wars” botnet with >350k Twitter bots
https://www.wired.com/story/leaked-a...ville-lawsuits
https://medium.com/dfrlab/botspot-tw...t-aedc7d9c110c
https://twitter.com/DFRLab
https://medium.com/@mentionmapp/fake...a-37a96c518b89
https://medium.com/@Felt/grand-theor...4-abc25d6a8756
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...-a7920181.html
How a Bot Army Probably Got Me Kicked Off Twitter
http://www.thedailybeast.com/how-a-b...ter&via=mobile
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