Iran-Aligned Emerald Divide Influence Campaign Evolves to Exploit Israel-Hamas Conflict

Recorded Future’s Insikt Group reports on "Emerald Divide," an Iranian-aligned influence operation active since 2021 that leverages coordinated social media accounts, AI-generated deepfakes, and targeted narratives to magnify ideological divisions and weaken public trust in Israel’s government; the campaign also includes cyber elements such as PII harvesting and doxing, and attribution overlaps with other reports naming state-aligned actors (e.g., Storm-1364), prompting coordinated responses from governments, tech firms, and researchers.