Microsoft Reveals First Known Midterm Campaign Hacking Attempts (politico.com)

An anonymous reader shares a report: Microsoft detected and helped block hacking attempts against three congressional candidates this year, a company executive said Thursday, marking the first known example of cyber interference in the midterm elections. "Earlier this year, we did discover that a fake Microsoft domain had been established as the landing page for phishing attacks," said Tom Burt, Microsoft's vice president for security and trust, at the Aspen Security Forum. "And we saw metadata that suggested those phishing attacks were being directed at three candidates who are all standing for election in the midterm elections."

Burt declined to name the targets but said they were "people who, because of their positions, might have been interesting targets from an espionage standpoint as well as an election disruption standpoint." Microsoft took down the fake domain and worked with the federal government to block the phishing messages.

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[Joe_Dragon]

why is windows on a voteing system?

Re:The hacking isn't nearly as troubling...

[ScentCone]

Democrats and their workers in the media absolutely must continue to conflate good old fashioned public discourse influencing (by the Russians ... as if they're the only government that does that!) with the fantasy of their having "hacked the election." Keeping those two topics - one routine, the other delusional fiction - melded together in front of low-information liberal voters is their only way of continuing to distract from why the Dems lost nearly a thousand legislative seats, most of the governorships, both houses of congress, the White House, the Supreme Court, and the good will of millions of two-time Obama voters who left in disgust.