Updated
from the Hill here: Their back and apparently with a vengeance: Russian hackers hit the
Senate with this pretty startling headline:
"Russia-linked hackers targeting
U.S. Senate"
A few
specifics: Russian hackers from the group known as “Fancy Bear” are targeting the 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 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.
* Notes on the
GRU: The
official name definition is: “Main Intelligence Directorate,” (the transliteration
is: Glavnoye
Razvedyvatel'noye Upravleniye (GRU).
It is the foreign military intelligence agency of the General Staff of
the Armed Forces of Russia.
Noteworthy on
their Worldwide Ops: In 1997 it
deployed six times as many agents in foreign countries as the SVR (the successor of
the KGB and its foreign operations directorate.
The Associated Press first reported Trend Micro's findings.
Breaking
story – more to follow I am sure – thanks for stopping by and stay tuned.
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