Australian Media Bombarded by 71,000 Spam Emails in Russia-Linked Disinformation Campaign

The report reveals Operation Overload is shifting focus to the upcoming US elections. The exact origins and backing of the campaign remain uncertain.

Participant hold their laptops in front of an illuminated wall at the annual Chaos Computer Club (CCC) computer hackers' congress, called 29C3, on Dec. 28, 2012 in Hamburg, Germany. Patrick Lux/Getty Images

A new report claims 15 Australian media outlets have been targeted in a coordinated disinformation campaign linked to Russia.

Finnish analytics firm CheckFirst released an update on its report, Operation Overload, analysing the pattern in which media houses were misled.