Russian hackers again tried to interfere in American elections — and this time their aim was to «brain centers» of the Senate and conservative organizations in the United States, said the multinational company Microsoft.
As found by analysts at Microsoft, the hacker group Fancy Bear, received the world popularity after a cyber attack on a computer network headquarters of Hillary Clinton, created the sites, according to the principle of operation is similar to the internal system of the Senate, to cyber attacks against election participants in the US and other political groups.
The hackers could use the domains to send emails to the staff Senate, and the Hudson Institute and the International Republican Institute to steal their personal information, particularly passwords.
Microsoft received permission of a judge of the Eastern district of Virginia access sites mentioned structures, argues that the domains of the fake sites were «connected with the Russian government.» Moreover, the same principle of hacking was used during a hacking attack on the headquarters of Clinton in 2016. However, according to Microsoft, there is no evidence that this time the scammers have managed to implement your plan.
Press Secretary of the Kremlin Dmitry Peskov in a statement Microsoft noted that it is not aware of any attempts of Russian intervention in the American elections and is not generally understood as military intelligence is connected with the Fancy Bear.
«Attackers want their attacks to appear as realistic as possible, and therefore create web sites and URLS that look like [mirror] websites that will be visited by their victims and where [the latter] will receive the message,» said President of Microsoft brad Smith.
Yesterday the company announced that, due to threats against political groups in the United States, she launches a free service to protect AccountGuard.
