Doppelgänger: New disinformation campaigns spreading on social media through Russian networks
This report presents: The intrusion set commonly known as Doppelgänger continues to spread disinformation narratives on social medias such as X, through bot accounts specifically made for such campaigns. As for its previous campaigns, Doppelgänger pushes its anti-western narrative on pages spoofing the medias of the targeted countries, such as France, Germany, Italy, Ukraine, and Israel. The disinformation campaign aims to manipulate public opinion by exploiting sensitive issues and exacerbating social and geopolitical divisions. The linguistic characteristics of the articles suggest that some of them were translated from Russian or edited by Russian natives, reinforcing the hypothesis that they are of Russian origin. In order to bypass both manual and automatic moderation on social media platforms, Doppelgänger continues to leverage Kehr[.]io, a redirection provider advertised on Russian speaking underground forums. This service hosts its infrastructure on IPs announced by English companies managed by Ukrainian and Belarusian individuals that we could connect with a high level of confidence to bulletproof network hosting solutions. * The disinformation campaigns remain ongoing.