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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 that criticized russia. and it is interesting because this intel on russian interference came from dig...

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 they're 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 extremely effective, and when we're actually -- when my team is actually testing corporate america, public...

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. it's 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. we're talking about the most sophisticated intelligence the russian intelligence, the iranians. >> reporter: the white house is coming under fire for not thwarting cyber...

Saying in a statement while the attack was not successful, it is outrageous. i'll 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-called phishing attacks. the company is on high alert for similar pages they say they take down when dis...

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 year's mid terms already being attacked by russian state sponsors. >> we did discover that a fake microsoft domain ha...