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The post OpenAI says Iran, Russia used AI journalists, think tanks to influence Western media appeared first on CyberScoop.","OpenAI has disrupted two significant influence operations originating from Russia and Iran, which leveraged AI tools like ChatGPT to generate fake journalist personas and covert think tanks. These operations successfully planted stories and narratives into mainstream Western media, focusing on influencing Latin American politics for Russia and pitching U.S.-Iran war narratives for Iran. OpenAI rated these campaigns as high-impact, with the Russian operation rated a 5 and the Iranian operation a 4 on their 1-6 scale, marking the first time the company has reported such high-severity influence campaigns.","OpenAI disrupted Russian and Iranian influence ops using AI to create fake journalists and think tanks.","https:\u002F\u002Fcyberscoop.com\u002Fopenai-disrupts-russia-iran-ai-influence-operations\u002F","https:\u002F\u002Fcyberscoop.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002Fsites\u002F3\u002F2024\u002F12\u002Frussia-iran.jpg","2026-10-08T17:44:43+00:00","2026-10-08T18:00:07.78839+00:00",8,[17,20,23,26],{"name":18,"type":19},"Dark Clark","threat_actor",{"name":21,"type":22},"ChatGPT","product",{"name":24,"type":25},"OpenAI","vendor",{"name":27,"type":19},"Wagner Group","6cbdd207-aaa1-4176-9534-e156b125e917",{"id":28,"icon":30,"name":31,"slug":32},null,"Nation-state","nation-state",[34,36,41,46],{"category":35},{"id":28,"icon":30,"name":31,"slug":32},{"category":37},{"id":38,"icon":30,"name":39,"slug":40},"839da5c1-3c34-47e2-9499-f7201640e3ac","AI Security","ai-security",{"category":42},{"id":43,"icon":30,"name":44,"slug":45},"c5c77cdb-f7d7-4990-9436-c81dcbff1163","Policy","policy",{"category":47},{"id":48,"icon":30,"name":49,"slug":50},"e7b231c8-5f79-4465-8d38-1ef13aea5a14","Threat Intelligence","threat-intelligence",[],[24,21],{"controls":54,"vendors":111},[55,83],{"slug":50,"name":56,"problem":57,"products":58},"Threat intelligence","Attack campaigns reach your sector, suppliers or software before your team hears about them.",[59,67,75],{"vendor_slug":60,"vendor_name":61,"vendor_logo":62,"product_slug":63,"product_name":64,"url":65,"description":66},"defused","Defused","\u002Fvendor-logos\u002Fdefused.png","defused-tf","Defused TF","https:\u002F\u002Fdefusedcyber.com\u002Fproduct\u002Ftf","Threat intelligence feed from honeypots Defused runs on several continents, showing which vulnerabilities attackers are exploiting right now, with payloads and indicators.",{"vendor_slug":68,"vendor_name":69,"vendor_logo":70,"product_slug":71,"product_name":72,"url":73,"description":74},"dataminr","Dataminr","\u002Fvendor-logos\u002Fdataminr.png","agentic-threat-intelligence-platform","Agentic Threat Intelligence Platform","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.dataminr.com\u002Fproducts\u002Fcyber-defense\u002Fagentic-threat-intelligence-platform\u002F","Threat intelligence platform, formerly ThreatConnect TI Ops, that collects, scores and structures intelligence and pushes it into security tools.",{"vendor_slug":76,"vendor_name":77,"vendor_logo":78,"product_slug":79,"product_name":80,"url":81,"description":82},"crowdstrike","CrowdStrike","\u002Fvendor-logos\u002Fcrowdstrike.png","falcon-adversary-intelligence","Falcon Adversary Intelligence","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.crowdstrike.com\u002Fen-us\u002Fplatform\u002Fthreat-intelligence\u002F","Threat intelligence on the adversaries CrowdStrike tracks, built into the Falcon platform to detect, disrupt and defend against them.",{"slug":40,"name":84,"problem":85,"products":86},"AI application security","Prompt injection, data leaks through AI tools and unapproved AI use get caught.",[87,95,103],{"vendor_slug":88,"vendor_name":89,"vendor_logo":90,"product_slug":91,"product_name":92,"url":93,"description":94},"boomi","Boomi","\u002Fvendor-logos\u002Fboomi.png","boomi-agentstudio","Boomi Agentstudio","https:\u002F\u002Fboomi.com\u002Fplatform\u002Fagentstudio\u002F","Agent builder whose Agent Control Tower registers and monitors Boomi agents and agents on Amazon Bedrock, Microsoft Copilot and other platforms, keeps audit logs and can switch agents off where the provider allows it.",{"vendor_slug":96,"vendor_name":97,"vendor_logo":98,"product_slug":99,"product_name":100,"url":101,"description":102},"palo-alto-networks","Palo Alto Networks","\u002Fvendor-logos\u002Fpalo-alto-networks.png","prisma-airs","Prisma AIRS","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.paloaltonetworks.com\u002Fai-security\u002Fprisma-airs","Security for AI applications, models and agents, including runtime protection against prompt injection.",{"vendor_slug":104,"vendor_name":105,"vendor_logo":106,"product_slug":107,"product_name":108,"url":109,"description":110},"cisco","Cisco","\u002Fvendor-logos\u002Fcisco.png","ai-defense","Cisco AI Defense","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.cisco.com\u002Fsite\u002Fus\u002Fen\u002Fproducts\u002Fsecurity\u002Fai-defense\u002Findex.html","Discovery of AI use, testing of models and guardrails for AI applications.",[],{"slug":113,"title":114,"body":115,"framework_refs":116,"framework_notes":126},"ai-powered-influence-operations-infiltrate-western-media-via-fake-personas","AI-Powered Influence Operations Infiltrate Western Media via Fake Personas","Russia and Iran exploited generative AI tools to fabricate credible journalist identities and fictitious think tanks, successfully seeding disinformation into mainstream Western media outlets. The root cause is a systemic lack of security awareness and verification rigor within media organizations and the public, who were unable to detect AI-generated content and synthetic personas at scale. This matters because AI dramatically lowers the cost and expertise required to run sophisticated influence campaigns, enabling state actors to manipulate geopolitical narratives with unprecedented efficiency. The absence of robust detection and monitoring mechanisms — both at AI platform providers and media consumers — allowed these campaigns to reach high-impact severity before being disrupted.",[117,118,119,120,121,122,123,124,125],"NIST SP 800-53 SI-8 (Spam Protection)","NIST SP 800-53 AT-2 (Security Awareness Training)","NIST SP 800-53 AU-6 (Audit Record Review)","CIS Control 14 (Security Awareness and Skills Training)","CIS Control 17 (Incident Response Management)","EU AI Act Article 50 (Transparency obligations for AI-generated content)","GDPR Article 5 (Data integrity and accountability principles)","MITRE ATLAS AML.T0019 (Publish Poisoned Datasets \u002F Influence via Synthetic Media)","DISARM Framework Red Team Tactic T0089 (Develop AI-Generated Personas)",{"NIST SP 800-53 SI-8 (Spam Protection)":127,"NIST SP 800-53 AU-6 (Audit Record Review)":128,"CIS Control 17 (Incident Response Management)":129,"NIST SP 800-53 AT-2 (Security Awareness Training)":130,"CIS Control 14 (Security Awareness and Skills Training)":131,"GDPR Article 5 (Data integrity and accountability principles)":132,"DISARM Framework Red Team Tactic T0089 (Develop AI-Generated Personas)":133,"EU AI Act Article 50 (Transparency obligations for AI-generated content)":134,"MITRE ATLAS AML.T0019 (Publish Poisoned Datasets \u002F Influence via Synthetic Media)":135},"Spam and content filtering can help screen unsolicited pitches from fake personas, though verification remains essential.","Reviewing records of contributor interactions helps detect patterns of fake persona activity.","Incident response helps media organisations correct and retract content when fake personas are discovered.","Awareness training helps editors recognise AI-generated personas and verify sources.","Awareness training helps media staff verify identities before publishing contributions.","Accuracy and accountability principles support verifying the identity of contributors.","Developing AI-generated personas is the tactic used here, which identity verification counters.","Transparency obligations for AI-generated content aim to make synthetic material identifiable.","Synthetic media and personas are used to influence targets, which verification can counter."]