Exposing Secondary Infektion

Graphika Report

Tuesday June 16, 2020

Exposing Secondary Infektion

Ben Nimmo, Camille François, C. Shawn Eib, Lea Ronzaud, Rodrigo Ferreira, Chris Hernon, and Tim Kostelancik

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Forgeries, Interference, and Attacks on Kremlin Critics Across Six Years and 300 Sites and Platforms

Secondary Infektion is a series of operations run by a large-scale, persistent threat actor from Russia that worked in parallel to the Internet Research Agency and the GRU but was systematically different in its approach. 

The campaign used fake accounts and forged documents to sow conflict between Western countries and most often targeted Ukraine. It produced at least 2,500 pieces of content in seven languages across over 300 platforms from 2014 into 2020. 

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