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Democrats. as t the daily beast reported, hackers have targeted at least one vulnerable senate democrat running for re-election. missouri senator clare make haskill. in a statement, she confirmed the attack. while this attack was not successful, it is outrageous that they think they can get away with this. i will not be intimidated. i have said it before and i will say it again. putin is a thug and a bully. in about 30 minutes at the white house, the president will meet in the situation room with his national security council to talk about election security. will this come up? will the threat of russian interference be on the agenda? kend delaney is the intelligence and national security report for nbc news. a congressional reporter for the daily beast. he shares the by-line on that report. david hickton is the founding director of the institute for cyberlaw, policy, and security at the university of pittsburgh. ....
He also served as u.s. attorney during the obama administration. i want to start with you, andrew. you guys right, the attempt against make haskill s office was a variant of the password stealing technique used by russia s so-called fancy hackers against john podesta in 2016. tell us what they did. that s right, katy. what they did was they tried to replicate what they did to john po te podesta in 2016. he was hillary s campaign chairman. they targeted senator make haskill s office such that it sent links that look like an authentic email from microsoft saying you needed to change your password and then it brought them to a page that looked ex t exactly like the microsoft portal where you change your password. if the individual followed that prompt and typed in their password, that gave those russian hackers basically a way ....
This sort of meddling again in 2018? sure. i just wrote a piece on it which is posted on msnbc news.com. this attempted attack of clare make haskill is an example of the notion that russia has not been deterred in the least. what experts and lawmakers say is the reason they haven t been deterred is there has been no presidential leadership in the two years since our government was attacked, our democracy was attacked by russia. after 9/11 the u.s. government reorganized to prevent such attack from happening again. there has been no such movement in the wake of an attack that some lawmakers, including john mccain, said was an act of war. there have been individual efforts by agencies, dhs working with the states, the fbi has a foreign influence task force, the nsa is stepping up its game in cyberspace. absent white house leadership, you are not going to get the approach you need. for example, tackling the meddling on social media by russian bots and trolls is a ....
Hard problem for the government. no one agency can do it. it involves the social media involves, the first amendment issues. without presidential leadership, it s really unlikely you will have a government approach that even comes close to solving that problem. two things. the july 27th sound bite we played at the top of this, russia, if you are listening, we know from the mueller indictment that that was the very first time that the conspirators named tried to hack into hillary clinton s server. it is also interesting to note that this mahack happened aroun the same time that donald trump was in springfield, missouri campaigning on behalf of mchaskill s opponent. listen to what he said. it s ominous to consider that the same russian actors may have been involved in trying to hack a vulnerable democratic senator s campaign right around the same time that president trump called for her ouster from the senate. but what is also distressing to ....
To infiltrate that computer system. there was no evidence to believe that the hack was successful and senator make haskill s office later confirmed that portion. again this is the first concrete evidence that we have that we were able to reveal here of russian interference in the 2018 midterms. and what tipped you off to this? so a couple weeks ago, or i guess last week at the aspen security forum, a top microsoft executive was talking about a few candidates that microsoft had picked up in terms of candidates that are standing for election this year that were targeted in these sort of what are called phishing operations. so we went to work to try to find out who exactly it was, and microsoft had identified that this was what s called a fancy bear operation within the russian gru, and we were able to identify it was senator make haskill s office. ken, is there any indication this will come up at that national security meeting? can you give us an update on whe ....