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‘I found out I’d been impersonated months later’: identity theft targeting journalists and Russia’s strategy to lend credibility to its disinformation campaigns·Maldita.es - Periodismo para que no te la cuelen

📲 ¡Pincha aquí y sigue el canal de WhatsApp de Maldita.es para que no te la cuelen! Storm-1516: creation and impersonation of websites to pass them off as media outletsOperation Storm-1516, discovered in August 2023 and named by Microsoft, is a campaign that involves creating websites that impersonate media outlets, copying their style, and also impersonating journalists who work in those outlets to spread misinformation.In March 2025, a German…
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Maldita.es — Periodismo para que no te la cuelen… broke the news on Friday, April 17, 2026.
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