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One Man, One AI, One Fake Persona: Inside the 5-Year Influence and Fraud ‘Patriot Bait’ Campaign
A single Russian-speaking threat actor operated a Telegram channel for five years, then began using artificial intelligence (AI) in September 2025 to automate content creation, credential harvesting, and cryptocurrency fraud targeting American users.
Why it matters: Practitioners monitoring threat actors and social engineering campaigns should track this evolution toward AI-assisted persona automation, as it enables one actor to scale credential theft and financial fraud operations at lower cost and effort.
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