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Democratic National Committee Says Hackers Unsuccessfully Targeted Voter Database (cnn.com)
The Democratic National Committee contacted the FBI on Tuesday after it detected what it believes was the beginning of a sophisticated attempt to hack into its voter database, a Democratic source tells CNN. From a report: The DNC was alerted in the early hours of Tuesday morning by a cloud service provider and a security research firm that a fake login page had been created in an attempt to gather usernames and passwords that would allow access to the party's database, the source said. The page was designed to look like the access page Democratic Party officials and campaigns across the country use to log into a service called Votebuilder, which hosts the database, the source said, adding the DNC believed it was designed to trick people into handing over their login details. The source said the DNC is investigating who may have been responsible for the attempted attack, but that it has no reason to believe its voter file was accessed or altered.
There's a huge difference between a random bot probing for unpatched vulnerabilities and a highly targeted attack with a specifically created fake login page.
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While not a sophisticated attack, a mocked up login portal is much more targeted than the bots that scrape the internet to look for open ports.
This is something in between what the article implies (some sort of high-tech conspiracy hacking attack) and what you're saying (dumb vulnerability scanners in the wild).
I would assume the RNC and other national political bodies are targeted. They simply choose not to disclose the attacks publicly.
I doubt my employer would disclose any hacking---attempted or successful---unless legally required to do so.
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It's not a conspiracy theory though, Trump is Putin's agent. Ask him, he won't disabuse you of that fact. He'll get on stage on TV and pardon Putin for war crimes - and has.
DNC is revving up their excuses for losing bigly in 2018 midterm elections. I'm certain they're stupid enough to try blaming their incompetence on Russia again.
Muh Russia intensifies