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Russian Hackers Launch Targeted Cyberattacks Hours After Trump's Win (vice.com)
Hours after Donald Trump won the Presidential Election, a group of hackers that is widely believed to be Russian and was involved in the breach of the Democratic National Committee launched a wave of attacks against dozens of people working at universities, think tanks, NGOs, and even inside the US government. From a report on Motherboard:Around 9 a.m. ET on Wednesday, the hackers sent a series of phishing emails trying to trick dozens of victims into opening booby-trapped attachments containing malware, and clicking on malicious links, according to security firm Volexity, which observed and reported the five attack waves. The targets work for organizations such as Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty, the Atlantic Council, the RAND Corporation, and the State Department, among others. One of the phishing emails included a forwarded message appearing to be from the Clinton Foundation, apparently sent by a professor at Harvard. The email used the professor's real address, and according to Volexity's founder Steven Adair, it's likely that the professor got hacked and the attackers then used his account to send out the phishing emails. (The professor did not respond to a request for comment.) One of the targets, who shared the email she received with Motherboard, said she "almost fell for it."
10's of millions of turkeys are cooked and eaten just hours after Trump is elected!!! Proof of the end of times brought about by the election!!!
(Ok, so it is more like 384 hours, and this has nothing to do with Trump, but the two have to be related somehow right? Or could it just be that hackers do what hackers do?)
So...phishing is news now? Zzzzzzz...
No no, get it right. It's "Russian" phishing. Also it was Russian because they said so. Now remember to double or triple down and call everyone racist/sexist/homophobic/misogynist and keep wondering why this helped Trump get elected.
Om, nomnomnom...
Some more headlines:
Russian Hackers Launch Targeted Cyberattacks Hours BEFORE Trump's Win
Russian Hackers Launch Targeted Cyberattacks DURING US ELECTION
Russian Hackers Launch Targeted Cyberattacks ALL THE FUCKING TIME...
He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.
Were you born and spent your life in a video rental store, or something? Your accusations hint that your view of the world is like a bad Hollywood movie. Russian hackers can't "hack" the election and decide who gets to be president, get it?