Certain groups that are backed up by Russia, China, and even Iran have just recently launched cyberattacks that are targeting both Trump and Biden campaigns. These groups also target people and organizations that are involved in the upcoming 2020 race. Microsoft warned that these efforts were done to interfere with the upcoming election.
Intentional targetting of the United States
Tom Burt, the company's very own corporate vice president of the general customer security and trust, said in a recent blog post that the whole malign activity clearly shows that different foreign activity groups have definitely stepped up their own efforts that are targeting the upcoming 2020 elections. Tom Burt also noted that most of the attacks that Microsoft has detected have finally stopped.
The revelation slowly comes after the official Treasury Department recently announced sanctions against four different people with certain links to Russia, including a particular Ukrainian lawmaker who actually met with Rudy Giuliani back in December. The sanctions were placed for attempting to strongly influence the upcoming United States presidential elections.
Compromised Persons?
The lawmaker is known as Andriy Derkach, who has been a certain "active Russian agent" for just over a whole decade and even "waged a covert influence campaign" that is designed to cultivate certain unsupported narratives that concern officials within the realm of the presidential election according to the department.
The official United States intelligence community recently issued an assessment back in August that intentionally warned of the ongoing activist by Russia, China, and also Iran. Russia, according to the recent assessment, is actively doing what they can in order to "denigrate" Biden, while China also prefers that Mr. Trump loses the reelection.
Iran, on the other hand, might actually try to "undermine" the United States democratic institutions and even the president through the use of certain online content.
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Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency statements
A certain Christopher Krebs, who works as the head of Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, recently stated that they are well aware of the different hacking attempts that Microsoft detected and they noted that the efforts did not actually involve the voting infrastructure or even the impact election systems.
Krebs stated that the announcement is quite consistent with the statements that were recently given by the Intelligence Community regarding the range of different malicious cyber activists that are targeting the upcoming 2020 campaign and also reinforces that this is actually an all-of-nation effort in order to defend dear democracy.
According to Krebs, everyone that is involved with the whole political process should strongly stay alert against the different sorts of attacks and that they are already releasing updated guidance for improving the whole cyber defences against the known account compromising attacks. It was also stated that Krebs encourages other people that experiences of a cyber incident come forward and report them to CISA and also the FBI.
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Written by Urian Buenconsejo
