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Warriors stoked online debate around issues like school shootings. researchers found more than 200,000 russian accounts engaged in online debate on vaccination. like other inflammatory issues, they were claimed for teams proand anti-vaccination, they only care to stoke divisions. the russian government is trying to tank some think tanks. they thwarted phishing attacks. fancy bear, cold by the russian government, and these attacks were aimed as trying to interfere with conservative think tanks th...

Attacked through their e-mail accounts. these hackers send them phishing e-mails. take us inside the mind of a hacker. why do they want in? what do you think theyre looking for? >> for some control here supposedly supposedly, the threat actors in this case are nation states like russia, for example, so they obviously want to influence the election, and one of the most common ways to attack these individuals, to get access to their e-mail, is through phishing attacks. phishing attacks are extreme...

Interesting targets from an espionage standpoint as well as an election disruption standpoint. >> reporter: the hackers used sfauld phishing attacks. they are on high alert for similar pages they say they take down when discovered. its the campaign rather than the voting systems among the most vulnerable targets. >> i think the fact is the campaign staffer will neff get to the level of these adversaries and staring them down. were talking about the most sophisticated intelligence the russian int...

Saying in a statement while the attack was not successful, it is outrageous. ill not be intimidated. putin is a thug and a bully. she is a vulnerable democrat. a senior microsoft executive confirmed that three 2018 candidates targeted by the same group of russian military intelligence operatives. >> because of their positions might have been interesting targets from an espionage standpoint as well as a election disruption standpoint. >> reporter: the hackers used fake microsoft pages in so-calle...

Impenaltying 9/11 attack in the summer of 2001. dan coats said he is deliberately choosing that same language to talk about the threat we are facing, including from russia going into our next election. after dan coats made those sort of alarming remarks two fridays ago, a vice president at microsoft gave an interview at the aspen security forum, he announce that had even just his one company, just microsoft, they had already found at least three congressional campaigns for this years mid terms a...

Midterm hacking attempts last week during a security forum in aspen. >> earlier this year we discovered a fake microsoft domain had been established as the landing page for phishing attacks and saw meta data that suggested those attacks were being directed at three candidates standing for election in the midterm elections. i can tell you they are people because of their positions might have been interesting targets from an espionage standpoint as well as an election disruption standpoint. >> the...

Summer of 2001. dan coates saying hes deliberately choosing that same language to talk about the threat were now facing including from russia toward our next election. after dan coates made those sort of alarming remarks two fridays ago, a vice president at microsoft gave a speech where he announced that microsoft had found at least three congressional campaigns for this years midterms that were already being attacked by russian state sponsored hackers. >> we did discover a fake microsoft domain...

Attempt. president trump was in missouri chastising mccaskill and asking the crowd to vote her our office. we first learned of russias midterm hacking attempts last week during a security forum. >> earlier this year we did discover that a fake microsoft domain had been established as the landing page for phishing attacks and saw metadata suggesting those attacks were being directed at three candidates who are all stand are for election in the mid-term elections. all people who, because of their ...

Details how bad actors operate. they target voting infrastructure like voting machines. they steal and weaponize voter data. help politicians with compromising email to damaging political opponents. spread false information and rely on unlawful lobbiying efforts. same hackers who went after the clinton emails remain active. >> earlier this year we did discover that a fake microsoft domain had been established as the landing page for phishing attacks and we saw metadata that suggests that those p...

Expires so no one can forward it, a screen capture with the camera, sensitive data. the biggest problem is putting links inside of email is a no-no from any security expert on the planet. that is where phishing attacks happen where people put a link that looks very real but instead takes you to a very bad place and they will try to capture your credit card numbers or other personal information or sneak software onto your device. jillian: what can people do? i dont know how to avoid this. >> the ...