Security News > 2022 > October > Pro-China crew ramps up disinfo ahead of US midterms. Not that anyone's falling for it
The prolific pro-Beijing Dragonbridge crew has apparently stepped up its activity ahead of the US 2022 midterms by trying to discourage Americans from voting as well as pinning the Nord Stream pipeline explosion on Uncle Sam.
Dragonbridge has become better at impersonating Americans in social media posts, mainly through improved writing and use of pronouns, Mandiant claimed.
The latest wave of propaganda spam also tries to pin the activities of well-known cyber-spies APT41 - widely believed to operate at the behest of Beijing - on US government agents.
Mandiant has been tracking Dragonbridge since 2019, when it was first spotted on social networks trying to discredit pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong.
While Dragonbridge's activities appear confined to social media disinfo campaigns, election security is very much on people's minds at the moment.
Mandiant has previously fretted that overseas agents would target the US midterm elections.
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