Share to FacebookShare to XArticle printing is available to subscribers onlyPrint in a simple, ad-free formatSubscribeComments: Zen reading is available to subscribers onlyAd-free and in a comfortable reading formatSubscribeA polling station (illustrative). Credit: ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFPA polling station (illustrative). Credit: ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP09:29 PM • June 11 2026 IDTIsraeli firm BlackCore, suspected of interfering in France's local elections in March, is also ‌suspected of meddling in elections in New York City and Scotland, and operating in Angola and Togo, the head of France's disinformation ⁠detection service Viginum said on Thursday.A joint investigation by the French daily Libération and Haaretz, which analyzed BlackCore's digital footprint, uncovered a toolkit of influence-operation systems routed through servers in Britain, Germany, Finland and Lithuania. French authorities identified BlackCore – a self-described Israeli "elite influence, cyber and technology" firm – as the suspected operator behind a disinformation campaign targeting left-wing candidates in France's 2026 municipal elections. BlackCore is now the subject of two investigations in France – one by Paris prosecutors and another by the domestic intelligence agency, which is probing who may have commissioned the campaign.BlackCore's systems appear to have shared web infrastructure with websites that housed the internal systems of two Israeli companies – Galacticos and SNI."This ⁠modus operandi was not limited to municipal elections in France," the head of Viginum, Marc-Antoine Brillant, said. "It also appears to ⁠have been used to carry out foreign digital interference operations in other countries or ⁠regions, such as Angola, Togo, the elections in Scotland, and ⁠the 2025 municipal election in New York."In the News'Server in the Sky': How Israeli Drones Became a 'Target Generator' Over GazaFake Haaretz Site Pushes Bogus Ukraine Gold Story – and Goes ViralRevealed: An Anti-left Influence Operation in France Leads to Tel AvivCyberattack That Paralyzed Israeli Ministries Was Preventable, State Report SaysIsraeli Startups Mobilize Against Explosive Drones at Tel Aviv HackathonRemembering and rebuilding two years laterICYMI'We Were Ordered to Kill': The 1967 Nakba That Israelis Don't Know AboutSix-year-old Boy Punctures a Magritte Iconic Masterpiece at Israel MuseumOne Killed, Five Wounded in Terror Shooting Rampage in Central IsraelGermany Is Paying a Price for Its Sweeping Support for IsraelIf the Netanyahu Government Falls, This Will Be the ReasonNetanyahu May Find His Way Back From Trump's Humiliation, but Back to What?