[private filter Thor/Tony/Steve]
You heard the man, Thor. Asgard's got the first swing.
Anyway, yeah. Apparently they're hard to wipe out entirely. Like cockroaches when someone turned the light on, they went skittering off to hide and lay eggs. Gross.
There was some chatter that shipments of Chitauri tech were moving through Hong Kong ports, through black market channels. That's uncomfortably close to the Middle-East. But that's all it was. Chatter. No hard evidence. They're covering their tracks, and they've gotten really good at it. I've only got bits and pieces. I passed them on to Fury, too.
The social media stuff, however? Russian. Known troll farm, outside Moscow. Probably hired on as a third party, possible they didn't know why. Also possible they did.
Maybe you can get our resident vodka aficionados on that, Cap?