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Geopolitics

OTTAWA, CANADA: The United States Embassy building is viewed from the Fairmont Chateau Laurier Hotel on June 30, 2012 in Ottawa, Canada. (Photo by George Rose/Getty Images)

The FBI is adding more cyber-focused agents to U.S. embassies

The agency’s deployment of additional cyber assistant legal attachés comes as it takes on a more proactive approach to combating cybercrime operations and infrastructure.
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A police car goes past the headquarters of the Federal Security Service (FSB), the successor agency to the KGB, and Lubyanka Square in front of it in central Moscow on March 3, 2023. (Photo by ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP via Getty Images)

US and British authorities sanction, indict Russian hackers

Andrey Korinets and Ruslan Peretyatko are alleged to have played a key role in the FSB's efforts to meddle in U.S. and British politics.
The American actor Elijah Wood, pictured here at a Hollywood premiere in March, was one of the American actors tricked into recording videos used in a Kremlin information operation. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

Russian information operation uses US celebrity Cameos to attack Zelensky

Kremlin propagandists tricked a half dozen celebrities into recording videos urging Ukraine's president to seek treatment for substance abuse.
A passenger reads a paper featuring images of different facial expressions of then-Prime Minister Vladimir Putin while riding in a subway carriage in Saint-Petersburg, on March 5, 2012. (OLGA MALTSEVA/AFP via Getty Images)

Russian AI-generated propaganda struggles to find an audience 

A long-running Kremlin propaganda campaign is experimenting with AI to create phony news sites but isn’t reaching a significant audience.
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