New Russian Hacking Targeted Republican Groups, Microsoft Says

[underpants]

NY Times

BOSTON — The Russian military intelligence unit that sought to influence the 2016 election appears to have a new target: conservative American think tanks that have broken with President Trump and are seeking continued sanctions against Moscow, exposing oligarchs or pressing for human rights.

In a report scheduled for release on Tuesday, Microsoft Corporation said that it detected and seized websites that were created in recent weeks by hackers linked to the Russian unit formerly known as the G.R.U. The sites appeared meant to trick people into thinking they were clicking through links managed by the Hudson Institute and the International Republican Institute, but were secretly redirected to web pages created by the hackers to steal passwords and other credentials.

Microsoft also found websites imitating the United States Senate, but not specific Senate offices or political campaigns.

The shift to attacking conservative think tanks underscores the Russian intelligence agency’s goals: to disrupt any institutions challenging Moscow and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2018/08/21/us/politics/russia-cyber-hack.amp.html

[ecstatic]

1. They attack repubs for blackmail purposes and attack dems to steal

elections.

[AlexSFCA]

2. it's fascinating that private corporations are now doing CIA/FBI job

[triron]

3. Yeah, where is the FBI ?

[Hekate]

4. I expected that. Their goal is to sow division & chaos, not display loyalty to any American tool...

...or political Party.

[PSPS]

6. That's a poor synopsis. Read the article to see what they're really up to.

[PSPS]

5. Note that they're targeting only those conservative outfits still critical of putin/trump.

This is putin's plan to consolidate his control over the KGOP and its agenda. Putin wants to destroy any conservative group critical of his actions (in other words, this operation targets those few conservative organizations that are critical of trump.)