As Ukraine battles for key city, pro-Russian accounts wage AI war
Fighting for control of Pokrovsk in Ukraine’s east is raging on, but in pro-Russian social media circles, Moscow has already won: viral, AI-generated videos depict a Ukrainian army in retreat, complete with fake, tearful soldiers. Russia has been trying to capture the logistics hub in the eastern Donetsk region for more than a year, intensifying […]
FBI disrupts hacking network ‘linked to Russian intelligence services’
US officials say they have disrupted a hacking network linked to Russian intelligence services. They say the hackers – believed to be from the secretive hacking arm of Russia’s Main Intelligence Directorate (better known as the GRU) – gained access to more than 1,000 personal and small business internet routers in the US and around […]
The United States and its allies have frozen more than $58 billion from Russian oligarchs
The United States and its allies have blocked or seized more than $58 billion worth of assets owned or controlled by sanctioned Russians in the past year as Western governments ramp up pressure on the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine, according to a joint communiqué from a multinational working group for the application of sanctions. The […]
