The Russian influence network CopyCop (Storm-1516) targeted the joint US-Armenian Firebird AI data center in Hrazdan, Armenia, through three documented media impersonation campaigns between June 24 and July 13, 2026. The campaigns used typosquatting domains impersonating TechCrunch and Gizmodo, plus fabricated Iranian military messaging, to disseminate false narratives about earthquake risk, power grid instability, and military targeting of the facility. The third instance achieved over 1.6 million combined views, demonstrating growing reach. CSS stylesheet hash analysis linked the infrastructure to previously confirmed CopyCop domains, and the same amplifier accounts were reused across campaigns targeting different Armenia-linked Western investment projects.
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CopyCop Targets AI Investment in Armenia