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The latest Storm-1516 disinformation campaign is targeting the Democratic Nominee in Ohio for U.S. Senate Sherrod Brown. The campaign promotes a false narrative with the allegations of sexual harassment against Sherrod Brown

The latest Storm-1516 disinformation campaign is targeting Ukraine. The campaign promotes a false narrative that a deadly strike in the Ukrainian city Kramatorsk was performed by a Ukrainian drone based on a fake "Ukrainian OSINT investigation"

The campaign is also using the branding of the Ukrainian online newspaper "Euromaidan Press", together with a link to a fake copycat website euromaidan-press[.]com (the real website is located at euromaidanpress[.]com)

The latest Storm-1516 disinformation campaign is targeting Ukraine. The campaign promotes a false narrative that Zelenskyy has purchased "The Diefenbaker" nuclear bunker in Canada

The campaign is also using the branding of the Canadian news outlet "Toronto Sun", together with a link to a fake copycat website toronto-sun[.]ca (the real website is located at torontosun[.]com)

The latest Storm-1516 disinformation campaign is targeting the Democratic Nominee for U.S. Senate James Talarico. The campaign promotes a fake testimony of an alleged sexual assault from a "former student"

The campaign is also relying on a recently created fake X account "Zyon_Lewis_5", using the name of the alleged former student Zyon Lewis

Unlike many of the state-sponsored influence operations, Storm-1516 operators rely primarily on an international network of real collaborators to publish and promote their narratives, in opposition to a more traditional approach of employing own network of bot accounts

The leader of the Brazilian branch of NR, Raphael Machado is also involved with the Storm-1516 group, per NDR report, he was sending Storm-1516 narratives to Daniel Gugger, who was for a long time the biggest collaborator of the group in the German-speaking sphere

Unlike many of the state-sponsored influence operations, Storm-1516 operators rely primarily on an international network of real collaborators to publish and promote their narratives, in opposition to a more traditional approach of employing own network of bot accounts

When it goes for hosting of the narratives, the "Foundation to Battle Injustice" (R-FBI), an operation closely tied to Storm-1516, is often relying on "Veterans Today" resources, associated with an American antisemite Gordon Duff

Unlike many of the state-sponsored influence operations, Storm-1516 operators rely primarily on an international network of real collaborators to publish and promote their narratives, in opposition to a more traditional approach of employing own network of bot accounts

Nolan also spilled that he works with people in Moscow who are a part of "the unofficial side of RT", and possibly paints a link to Tina Kandelaki, a wife of Vassily Brovko, one of the closest people to Rostec director Sergey Chemezov

Unlike many of the state-sponsored influence operations, Storm-1516 operators rely primarily on an international network of real collaborators to publish and promote their narratives, in opposition to a more traditional approach of employing own network of bot accounts

It was possible to uncover Nolan's role in the operation thanks to an archive named "Nolan files" published by "My Lord Bebo" account, which is known to spread pro-Kremlin narratives. Our team was able to independently verify the authenticity of a large part of the archive.

Unlike many of the state-sponsored influence operations, Storm-1516 operators rely primarily on an international network of real collaborators to publish and promote their narratives, in opposition to a more traditional approach of employing own network of bot accounts

In our latest report we are diving into some of the major figures, who are involved in promotion and hosting of the materials produced by Storm-1516 group

The Storm-1516 distribution network also continues to promote the "advertisements" for the Russian "Geran" drones bsky.app/profile/gnid...

In one case it promoted a fragment from Semen Boikov's (also known as "Aussie Cossack") appearance in Alex Jones Show

Another recent Storm-1516 disinformation campaign is targeting the French presidential candidate Raphael Glucksmann. The campaign promotes a false narrative that Glucksmann spent over 2 million Euro on private jet flights.

The latest Storm-1516 disinformation campaign is targeting Germany. The campaign promotes a false narrative that the German chancellor Friedrich Merz had a stroke and was replaced by a double for several of the public appearances

The latest Storm-1516 disinformation campaign is targeting Ukraine and Norway. The campaign promotes a false narrative that Zelenskyy has allegedly purchased a family estate of the Norwegian royal family in connection Zelenskyy's visit to Norway

Another recent Storm-1516 disinformation campaign is targeting Ukraine

In some cases, the narrative is promoted with a shorter video of the alleged "search" with the logos of Ukraine's anti-corruption authorities

Another recent Storm-1516 disinformation campaign is targeting Ukraine

The latest Storm-1516 disinformation campaign is targeting France. The campaign promotes a false narrative that the French presidential candidate Edouard Philippe has allegedly reserved a unit inside the "mega safe" in Swiss mountains