La guerra ibrida del Cremlino tra tangenti e interferenze oscura il referendum della Moldova sull'Ue
Secondo i funzionari europei, le campagne di disinformazione e gli schemi di acquisto dei voti rischiano di compromettere l'integrità del voto della Moldova del 20 ottobre prossimo
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00:00Is Russia hijacking Moldova's EU referendum?
00:09On the 20th of October, Moldovans will vote in a presidential election and a referendum on EU membership.
00:16A yes for accession to the European Union would affirm the country's pro-European path.
00:22But Moldovan authorities are warning that Kremlin-backed actors are using hybrid warfare to subvert the ballot,
00:29including by depositing money directly into Moldovans' bank accounts to buy their anti-EU vote.
00:40Checkpoint Research has uncovered how malicious actors are using email campaigns to try to sway Moldovans' vote and prepare the ground for malware attacks.
00:51This counterfeit document claiming to come from the European Commission was circulated to Moldovan civil servants in August.
00:59It alleges that joining the European Union would oblige them to take a mandatory English proficiency exam to keep their jobs
01:08and that an LGBTQ plus flag would be raised at ministry buildings 12 days per year.
01:15Another document purporting to come from the European prosecutor asks Moldovan officials to share their personal data on a form hosted on an attacker-controlled domain purporting to be an official EU site.
01:28The linguistic errors made in the communications and the metadata of the PDF documents strongly suggest Russian authorship.
01:38But despite these hybrid attacks, the chair of the European Parliament's Moldovan delegation says that the Kremlin will not derail the Eastern European country's democracy.
01:49It is clear that Russia cannot interfere more than we can support the Republic of Moldova.