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"Russian Hacking of Midterm Elections has Already Started, Microsoft Warns
The hacking group responsible for targeting political entities during the 2016 U.S. presidential election have already attempted to target staffers linked to three candidates standing for election in the midterms later this year, a Microsoft executive warned on Thursday.
This first known case of hacking activity with the midterms in the cross hairs was revealed by Tom Burt, Microsoft's vice president for customer security and trust, at the Aspen Security Forum.
Responding to a question about "Russian intrusion in this year's election," he explained his team had, in 2016, spotted bogus Microsoft domain names being exploited to launch convincing phishing attacks.
This was one tactic used to help pilfer and release emails from the Democratic National Committee (DNC), former White House Chief of Staff John Podesta and others.
The same cyber crime approach has been recorded again, he told attendees.
“Earlier this year, we did discover that a fake Microsoft domain had been established as the landing page for phishing attacks and we saw metadata that suggested those phishing attacks were being directed at three candidates who are standing for election in the midterm elections,” Burt noted.
“ ... I can tell you that they were all people who, because of their positions, might have been interesting targets from an espionage standpoint as well as an election disruption standpoint.
“We took down that domain, and working with the government we were able to avoid anybody being infected by that particular attack,” said Burt.
To Microsoft engineers, the hacking team in question is code named Strontium.
But the group is also known under a slew of other titles, including APT28, Fancy Bear and Pawn Storm.
Experts say
based on the tools used and common targets,
its activities have close ties to Russia’s militaryintelligence unit,
widely known as GRU. ... "
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With the election of Trump in November 2016, the work has gotten more time consuming and the only end in sight will be with Democratic wins in 2018 and 2020.
Currently, I am looking for support to cover 3-one-half months of expenses so I can stay at my laptop and expand my work by providing guidance for others to join in the work of calling on media to do its job, particularly leading up to the November 2018 election. In return, I will email you a copy of my ebook: “How to Influence Media on Twitter in Real Time.”
As a former journalist I know media can use our help in fully informing the American people before they cast their ballots in November and communicating with them and sharing experience and evidence based expertise as a Democrat is one way to do that. I find Twitter to be the most efficient way to do that but conversations with media, as a process, can be easily adapted to any social media platform.
Once you make a donation, please message me with your name and your email address and I will send the ebook link the minute I get to it (Use the envelope icon next to my name).In the ebook, you will learn my process of conversing with media and you will learn how to communicate with me if you have questions.
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