Microsoft believes there have been extensive “cyberattacks targeting people and organizations involved in the upcoming presidential election,” and that foreign government hackers responsible for attacks ahead of the 2016 vote are back with new and nastier tactics.
The Windows giant's corporate veep for Customer Security & Trust Tom Burt said both sides of US politics are being attacked, that China, Russia and Iran are all active, and that the spies are also actively targeting UK political parties and other international institutions.
Burt reckoned three actors are at work. Russia’s crew is called Strontium, aka Fancy Bear, and is thought to have been behind intrusions into the Democratic Party’s computers during the 2016 race to the White House in the United States. Readers may recall that campaign fell to a phishing attack that is thought to have ..
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