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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Fri Jan 12, 2018, 04:02 PM Jan 2018

Russia-linked hackers targeting US Senate

Russian hackers from the group known as "Fancy Bear" are targeting the U.S. Senate with a new espionage campaign, according to cybersecurity firm Trend Micro.

The Tokyo-based cybersecurity group tells The Hill that it has discovered a chain of suspicious-looking websites set up to look like the U.S. Senate's internal email system, and learned that the sites were being operated as part of an email-harvesting operation.

The websites were reportedly set up by Fancy Bear, a group linked to Russia's military intelligence agency, the GRU. The group has been implicated in the hack of the Democratic National Committee ahead of the 2016 presidential election.

The Associated Press first reported Trend Micro's findings.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russia-linked-hackers-targeting-us-senate/ar-AAuBiOl?li=BBnbcA1&ocid=edgsp

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