Security News > 2023 > July > Ukraine takes down massive bot farm, seizes 150,000 SIM cards
The Cyber ??Police Department of the National Police of Ukraine dismantled another massive bot farm linked to more than 100 individuals after searches at almost two dozen locations.
Since the start of the war in Ukraine, Russian threat actors have been involved in disinformation campaigns targeting Ukraine and have invested in Ukraine-based bot farms.
In September 2022, the Cyber Department of the Ukrainian Security Service took down another army of thousands of bots spreading Russian disinformation across multiple messaging platforms and social networks.
In August 2022, the Ukrainian cyber police dismantled a massive bot farm of more than 1,000,000 bots that was also used to spread Russian disinformation and fake news on social networks.
These disinformation bot farms operated from Kharkiv, Cherkasy, Ternopil, and Zakarpattia to discourage Ukrainians and instill panic by pushing false information about the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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