Security News > 2022 > May > Iran, China-linked gangs join Putin's disinformation war online

Pro-Beijing and Iran miscreants are using the war in Ukraine to spread disinformation that supports these countries' political interests - namely, advancing anti-Western narratives - according to threat-intel experts at Mandiant.

It also attributes these campaigns to actors that the threat researchers say are operating in support of nation-states including Russia, Belarus, China and Iran.

"They're opportunistically leveraging the invasion to pursue the goals of known campaigns," Wahlstrom, a senior analyst at Mandiant, told The Register.

Some of the campaigns include messaging directed at Arabic-language audiences stating that the US has abandoned Ukraine like it did with Afghanistan in 2021.

In addition to the Chinese and Iranian campaigns related to the Ukraine war, the research includes information on new Russian information operations.

A more recent Secondary Infection campaign circulated in both Ukrainian and Russian falsely claimed that the Ukrainian and Polish governments sought to enable Polish troops to deploy in western Ukraine.

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