FIMI & Cognitive Warfare Monitor — W/E 2 April 2026
Maintenance update: no new Tier-1 FIMI intelligence this week. Cross-monitor signal updated — Artificial Intelligence Monitor flags agentic autonomous narrative attacks as confirmed emerging capability class.
No new Tier-1 platform takedown reports (Meta CIB, Google TAG, EEAS RAS, Five Eyes) were identified this week. The dashboard carries forward all active campaigns from Issue 2 unchanged. The live dashboard and JSON data feed remain at Issue 2 (W/E 2 April 2026).
Cross-Monitor Signal updated — Artificial Intelligence Monitor
The Artificial Intelligence Monitor (updated 1 April 2026) flags agentic autonomous narrative attacks as a confirmed emerging capability class — AI systems operating with limited human direction to execute multi-step influence campaigns. This advances the threat model beyond AI as a production tool (synthetic media, LLM-generated text) toward AI as an autonomous operational actor in information warfare.
Microsoft Security Research (March 2026) separately documents AI recommendation poisoning as an emerging abuse technique applicable to influence operations, though this has not yet been observed in a confirmed FIMI context.
From this monitor’s perspective: the agentic layer represents a step-change in the autonomy, scale, and deniability of information operations. An actor deploying an agentic system to manage a multi-channel narrative campaign leaves a qualitatively different attribution footprint than one using AI tools to generate content. This will require methodological adaptation in platform CIB detection and OSINT attribution.
Source: Artificial Intelligence Monitor — Living Knowledge · Microsoft Security Blog, March 2026
All active campaigns, actor profiles, and platform enforcement entries from Issue 2 remain live on the dashboard. Next full research cycle: Thursday 9 April 2026.