Microsoft's Tom Burt talks about phishing attacks detected by Microsoft against political campaigns at the Aspen Security Summit. In a panel discussion at the Aspen Institute's Security Summit yesterday, Microsoft Corporate Vice President for Customer Security and Trust Tim Burt said that in the course of hunting for phishing domains targeting Microsoft customers, members of Microsoft's security team detected a site set up by Russian actors that was being used in an attempt to target congressional candidates. "Earlier this year," said Burt, "we did discover that a fake Microsoft domain had been established as the landing page for phishing attacks, 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." While Burt would not disclose who the candidates were, he did say that they "were all people who, because of their positions, might have been interesting from an espionage standpoint as well as an election disruption standpoint." Microsoft alerted US law enforcement and worked with the government to take down the sites.
Microsoft Detected Russian Attempt To Hack 3 Congressional Candidates This Year
Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica
Fri, 07/20/2018 - 12:15pm
Topics: microsoft's tom burt aspen security aspen institute's security microsoft corporate vice president customer security trust tim burt russian earlier while burt read comments microsoft microsoft's summit us burt detected attempt year congressional candidates phishing attacks government domain standpoint election
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