Russian hackers hunted journalists in years long campaign

[triron]

Perhaps this partially explains the odd behavior of MSM during campaigns?
https://apnews.com/c3b26c647e794073b7626befa146caad/Russian-hackers-targeted-more-than-200-journalists-globally

[Leghorn21]

1. Thanks, triron - I posted this earlier and just think it's a hell of a story...and also feel like

an idiot for not having considered this possibility before, like on my own.."oh well"

Excerpt from link:

“CLASSIC KGB TACTIC”

New Yorker writer Masha Gessen said it was also in 2015 — when Secureworks first detected attempts to break into her Gmail — that she began noticing people who seemed to materialize next to her in public places in New York and speak loudly in Russian into their phones, as if trying to be overheard. She said this only happened when she put appointments into the online calendar linked to her Google account.

Gessen, the author of a book about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s rise to power, said she saw the incidents as threats.

“It was really obvious,” she said. “It was a classic KGB intimidation tactic.”

Other U.S.-based journalists targeted include Josh Rogin, a Washington Post columnist, and Shane Harris, who was covering the intelligence community for The Daily Beast in 2015. Harris said he dodged the phishing attempt, forwarding the email to a source in the security industry who told him almost immediately that Fancy Bear was involved.

[Squinch]

2. And this is whose feet them freedom lovin' republicans are licking.

[triron]

3. Guess they had no luck with joan Walsh.