Question

1. Summarize in your own words (300-400 words) the major findings from Mandiant/FireEye about the Ghostwriter Influence Campaign[1]. Also provide some recommendations about how governments should respond, and how people can avoid misinformation.

[1] Ghostwriter Influence Campaign | Mandiant/FireEye https://www.fireeye.com/content/dam/fireeye-www/blog/pdfs/Ghostwriter-Influence-Campaign.pdf

Answer 1

The Ghostwriter Influence Campaign Fabricated Content Pushes Narratives Aligned With Russian Security Interests.
Mandiant Threat Intelligence has tied together several information operations that FireEye assesses with moderate confidence to comprise part of a broader influence campaign.
The ghostwriter is the influence campaign mainly targeted audiences in Lithuania, Latvia, and Poland with themes referencing the North Atlantic Treaty Organization presence in Eastern Europe, often using compromised websites or spoofed email accounts to distribute the fake content.
The attacks have not been attributed to a specific actor, the operations are “part of a larger, concerted, and ongoing influence campaign,” FireEye says in its report.
The Ghostwriter operation employs a combination of tactics and dissemination of fake content that often changes from one incident to another.
The ghostwriter is an information operations campaign designed to attack the NATO alliance in Poland and the Baltics.
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