SBU exposes bot farm in Kharkiv that sent SMS messages to Ukrainian military, law enforcers

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has exposed a new enemy bot farm in Kharkiv, which sent SMS exclusively to the Ukrainian military and law enforcement agencies.

As reported on the Facebook page of the intelligence service on Friday morning, during the short period of operation of the bot farm, it managed to send out about 5,000 SMS messages with the following content: "The outcome of events is a foregone conclusion! Be prudent and refuse to support nationalism and discredited leaders of the country who have already fled the capital."

The SBU notes that in this way the special services of the Russian Federation tried to conduct an information operation to undermine the moral and psychological state of the Ukrainian security forces.

The bot farm was quickly discovered and neutralized by SBU cyber experts. It turned out that all of its equipment was located in Dnipropetrovsk region, but was remotely controlled from the Russian Federation. The owner of the house where the equipment was located said that he did not know about his role in the "special operation" of the invaders: he only had to connect the equipment to the Internet and download SIM cards of mobile operators, for which he had to receive $2,000 per month.

Currently, all the equipment has been seized, and SBU employees are working with those involved.