Microsoft says it blocked the first attempts of a Russian threat actor at hacking into the campaigns of three congressional candidates participating in the 2018 midterm elections. Microsoft VP Tom Burt says the phishing attacks were directed against the staff of the three candidates. He declined to name the candidates citing their right for privacy. Burt: We’re not seeing the same level of activity by the threat intelligence community leading into the mid-year elections that we could see when looking back on the 2016 elections. “There’s not seeing ongoing activities like the one we were going to disrupt much earlier this year
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