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Incident 10603 Report
Institute for Strategic Dialogue Reports Russian-Aligned Operation Overload Using Purported AI-Generated Impersonations Across January to March 2025

2025-05-06

Researchers at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) report that Operation Overload (also known as Matryoshka or Storm-1679) is a Russian-aligned campaign leveraging purported AI-generated voiceovers and visual impersonations to spread false or inflammatory content across platforms. The campaign reportedly involved at least 135 discrete posts analyzed by ISD in early 2025 targeting institutions and individuals, including one purported viral video claiming USAID funded celebrity trips to Ukraine (see Incident 1061).

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Other entities that are related to the same incident. For example, if the developer of an incident is this entity but the deployer is another entity, they are marked as related entities.
 

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Storm-1679

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1060
    3 Reports

    Institute for Strategic Dialogue Reports Russian-Aligned Operation Overload Using Purported AI-Generated Impersonations Across January to March 2025

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Russian-aligned actors

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1060
    3 Reports

    Institute for Strategic Dialogue Reports Russian-Aligned Operation Overload Using Purported AI-Generated Impersonations Across January to March 2025

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Operation Overload

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1060
    3 Reports

    Institute for Strategic Dialogue Reports Russian-Aligned Operation Overload Using Purported AI-Generated Impersonations Across January to March 2025

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Matryoshka

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1060
    3 Reports

    Institute for Strategic Dialogue Reports Russian-Aligned Operation Overload Using Purported AI-Generated Impersonations Across January to March 2025

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Various generative AI developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1060
    3 Reports

    Institute for Strategic Dialogue Reports Russian-Aligned Operation Overload Using Purported AI-Generated Impersonations Across January to March 2025

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Unknown voice cloning technology developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1060
    3 Reports

    Institute for Strategic Dialogue Reports Russian-Aligned Operation Overload Using Purported AI-Generated Impersonations Across January to March 2025

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Unknown deepfake technology developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1060
    3 Reports

    Institute for Strategic Dialogue Reports Russian-Aligned Operation Overload Using Purported AI-Generated Impersonations Across January to March 2025

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Western support for Ukraine

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1060
    3 Reports

    Institute for Strategic Dialogue Reports Russian-Aligned Operation Overload Using Purported AI-Generated Impersonations Across January to March 2025

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Voters in Germany

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1060
    3 Reports

    Institute for Strategic Dialogue Reports Russian-Aligned Operation Overload Using Purported AI-Generated Impersonations Across January to March 2025

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USAID

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1060
    3 Reports

    Institute for Strategic Dialogue Reports Russian-Aligned Operation Overload Using Purported AI-Generated Impersonations Across January to March 2025

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Ukrainian refugees

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1060
    3 Reports

    Institute for Strategic Dialogue Reports Russian-Aligned Operation Overload Using Purported AI-Generated Impersonations Across January to March 2025

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Truth

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1060
    3 Reports

    Institute for Strategic Dialogue Reports Russian-Aligned Operation Overload Using Purported AI-Generated Impersonations Across January to March 2025

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News organizations

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1060
    3 Reports

    Institute for Strategic Dialogue Reports Russian-Aligned Operation Overload Using Purported AI-Generated Impersonations Across January to March 2025

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Law enforcement agencies

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1060
    3 Reports

    Institute for Strategic Dialogue Reports Russian-Aligned Operation Overload Using Purported AI-Generated Impersonations Across January to March 2025

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Journalists

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1060
    3 Reports

    Institute for Strategic Dialogue Reports Russian-Aligned Operation Overload Using Purported AI-Generated Impersonations Across January to March 2025

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General public

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1060
    3 Reports

    Institute for Strategic Dialogue Reports Russian-Aligned Operation Overload Using Purported AI-Generated Impersonations Across January to March 2025

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European politicians

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1060
    3 Reports

    Institute for Strategic Dialogue Reports Russian-Aligned Operation Overload Using Purported AI-Generated Impersonations Across January to March 2025

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Electoral integrity

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1060
    3 Reports

    Institute for Strategic Dialogue Reports Russian-Aligned Operation Overload Using Purported AI-Generated Impersonations Across January to March 2025

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Democracy

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1060
    3 Reports

    Institute for Strategic Dialogue Reports Russian-Aligned Operation Overload Using Purported AI-Generated Impersonations Across January to March 2025

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Academics

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1060
    3 Reports

    Institute for Strategic Dialogue Reports Russian-Aligned Operation Overload Using Purported AI-Generated Impersonations Across January to March 2025

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X (Twitter)

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1060
    3 Reports

    Institute for Strategic Dialogue Reports Russian-Aligned Operation Overload Using Purported AI-Generated Impersonations Across January to March 2025

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Unknown voice cloning technology

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1060
    3 Reports

    Institute for Strategic Dialogue Reports Russian-Aligned Operation Overload Using Purported AI-Generated Impersonations Across January to March 2025

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Unknown deepfake technology

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1060
    3 Reports

    Institute for Strategic Dialogue Reports Russian-Aligned Operation Overload Using Purported AI-Generated Impersonations Across January to March 2025

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Telegram

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1060
    3 Reports

    Institute for Strategic Dialogue Reports Russian-Aligned Operation Overload Using Purported AI-Generated Impersonations Across January to March 2025

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Social media platforms

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1060
    3 Reports

    Institute for Strategic Dialogue Reports Russian-Aligned Operation Overload Using Purported AI-Generated Impersonations Across January to March 2025

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Bluesky

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1060
    3 Reports

    Institute for Strategic Dialogue Reports Russian-Aligned Operation Overload Using Purported AI-Generated Impersonations Across January to March 2025

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