Microsoft said that the Russian Internet army has begun to influence American election

(Brussels / San Francisco Comprehensive) The US Microsoft Corporation said that Russia has started online activities aimed at affecting the end of the year at the end of the year, but the pace of action is slower than previous elections.

Microsoft issued a report on Wednesday (April 17) that account -related accounts related to Russia are spreading the division content against American audiences, including criticizing the United States to support Ukraine in the Russia -Ukraine War.

Researchers say that although the activities of the Russian Internet forces are not as fierce as in the past elections, they may increase in the next few months.In the past two months, at least 70 Russian online military activity groups tracked by Microsoft have used traditional media and social media to publish more and more information about Ukraine.

Among these actions of the Russian Internet Army, the most active part of the Russian Presidential Palace.Another action uses a variety of languages ​​to spread false information on the Internet. The post is usually about the reporters or citizen journalists publishing content on the video channel, and these contents were then reported by Washington Weekly, Miami Ji Dao and other websites.

Microsoft said: "In the end, the above content passed on the Internet for several days or weeks, the American audience will repeat and forward these false information, and they are likely not to know the original source of the information."

Belgium refers to Russia attempting to intervene in the European Parliament election

In Europe, Belgium recently said that Russia is spreading false information to try to intervene in the European Parliament elections held in June so that more pro -Russian candidates enter the European Parliament and weaken the European Union's support for Ukraine.

EU leaders agreed to jointly deal with the threat of intervention from Russia at the summit on Wednesday, and some countries claimed sanctions against Moscow's malware.The President of the European Council Michelle said that the European Union must be more vigilant, integrate the tools owned, and conduct more cooperation to show Russia's "not naive".

Mandiant, a subsidiary of Google, issued a report on Wednesday that the Russian government's hacker "Sandworm" will pose a major threat to the world.

The report said that many countries have held elections this year, and given that sand worms have tried to intervene in democratic elections many times, it may have a greater threat in the near future.