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Safeguarding our elections. their latest concern, microsoft's announcement that it had shut down a phishing attack aimed at senate offices and two conservative think tanks. watch this. >> some of the undisciplined comments that the president makes creates just as much trouble for these people as they do for us. and the rest of our country. >> true to form, the kremlin promptly denied involvement. that is nonsense. the president should call it that and forcefully respond. >> julia ainsley, malcolm nance, nbc terrorism analyst. and clint watt, msnbc security analy analyst. jim, tell us more abou...

Vice president said was that these were people who would have been interesting from an electoral interference standpoint and also an espionage standpoint. i did reach out to some campaigns that might have fit that bill. so far, no one is indicating they're aware of this. >> mike, has microsoft said that they can prevent these things in the future? where are we in this identification of this phishing attack and this website? >> reporter: the way microsoft said they uncovered this was they were in charge of security during the 2016 conventions for both the democratic and republican convention. d...

Has been some effective countermeasures. the german parliament found ways to limit the russians' ability to do this, but the root of the problem, technically, is the internet and e-mails and servers and all of that stuff in today's connected society is designed to share information. and whenever you have a situation like that, it's extremely difficult to have software fixes to protect against this. it's really hard and the russians are really good. >> how do we know that the russians are doing this? how do we know this is under way? >> well, again, there's a lot of deep technical work that's d...

We are seeing how technology can effect people's lives with ransomware. we're not out of the woods yet. >> you talk about hospitals, you talk life and death in a situation like that possibly. help us understand what the threat is at this hour. i remember listening to somebody this morning saying they tell you you have to pay $300 and that doesn't guarantee you get your information back. >> it doesn't guarantee you get your information back, but many times the way these type of cyber criminals work, they wan th want that money. people pay the money to get access to files. people have to make th...

France. so, there's been a media campaign as well in the background to this phishing attack and then this leak, this document dump. what's significant is and you pointed it out, the macron campaign had to deal with this, had to put out a statement, a fairly long statement, fairly detailed and release it four minutes to midnight because they didn't want to go over it seems that midnight boundary and then get themselves in trouble with the law. and there were several media organizations in this country that started to talk about it and then the interior ministery sent out this warning saying, do...