New Cyber-Attacks Targeting U.S. Elections
AnonTechie writes:
New cyberattacks targeting U.S. elections
In recent weeks, Microsoft has detected cyberattacks targeting people and organizations involved in the upcoming presidential election, including unsuccessful attacks on people associated with both the Trump and Biden campaigns, as detailed below. We have and will continue to defend our democracy against these attacks through notifications of such activity to impacted customers, security features in our products and services, and legal and technical disruptions. The activity we are announcing today makes clear that foreign activity groups have stepped up their efforts targeting the 2020 election as had been anticipated, and is consistent with what the U.S. government and others have reported. We also report here on attacks against other institutions and enterprises worldwide that reflect similar adversary activity.
We have observed that:
Strontium, operating from Russia, has attacked more than 200 organizations including political campaigns, advocacy groups, parties and political consultants
Zirconium, operating from China, has attacked high-profile individuals associated with the election, including people associated with the Joe Biden for President campaign and prominent leaders in the international affairs community
Phosphorus, operating from Iran, has continued to attack the personal accounts of people associated with the Donald J. Trump for President campaign
People here may view Microsoft's claims of stopping all these cyber-attacks with derision. Although, this is a Microsoft Memo, many other media outlets have have gone ahead with the story. I expect that all countries that are capable of such cyber-attacks shall make attempts. They have nothing much to lose and no incentive to stop trying!
Other coverage: Russian Intelligence Hackers Are Back, Microsoft Warns, Aiming at Officials of Both Parties and China, Russia and Iran all attacking US elections and using some nasty new tactics, says Microsoft.
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