STORM-2035 (Iran) — ChatGPT used to seed AI-news sites Nio Thinker / Savannah Time targeting US election
Date: 2024-08
Affected: OpenAI ChatGPT; US voters
Attack vector: tool-abuse
Category: threat-report
Severity: High

Iranian operation STORM-2035 used ChatGPT to plagiarise mainstream US journalism and seed four fake news outlets (incl. Nio Thinker on the left, Savannah Time on the right) plus social-media personas attacking both 2024 US presidential candidates. Disrupted by OpenAI and Microsoft.


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