Its goal is to undermine the support for Ukraine and polarize Western states: For more than two years, the Russian disinformation campaign Doppelgänger has been running on social networks and its own portals. Despite sanctions, the affected countries have not been able to stop the campaign. This is also because the architects of the campaign employ methods tried and tested by cyber criminals: Identity theft, use of stolen credit cards, bulletproof hosting, cloaking services and multi-level forwarding mechanisms. Research by CORRECTIV and Qurium based on data provided by Antibot4Navalny has uncovered the technical infrastructure of the campaign. The talk guides the audience through details of the new potential alliance between the Russian state and the criminal world. It raises questions about the accountability of authorities and platforms and opens the discussion to the possibilities and limits of resistance against malign foreign influences in the digital sphere.