Up in the richy rich of the totally fucking rich part of Aspen, Micro$oft says (does not claim) it cock blocked all attempts at midterm election hacking.

"Microsoft said it already blocked the first attempts of a Russian threat actor at hacking into the campaigns of three congressional candidates participating in the 2018 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, Corporate Vice President for Customer Security and Trust, Microsoft."

Okay, for one, there are several "threat actors" out there so which one(s)? Fancy Bear? Two, a landing page is just that and phishing attacks not always actual hacks. My guess here is the uber-liberl rich have already themselves divided up this country and in no fucking way is the F A T Orange Blunder and his buddy who buttfucks him six times a day going to fuck up their plans. Third, the straight propaganda bullshit:

We saw metadata that suggested those phishing attacks were directed at three candidates who are all standing for election in the midterm elections, he added. Burt says the phishing attacks were directed against the staff of the three candidates. He declined to name the three candidates citing their right for privacy. Because of their position, [the staff] might have been interesting targets from an espionage standpoint as well as an election disruption standpoint, Burt said. We took down that domain, he added, and working with the government we were able to avoid anybody being infected by that particular attack. The government's security teams deserve a lot of credit for that, the Microsoft exec said. Yep. you can alwyas trust a Micro$off exec.

Ooooooh, "working with the government" can mean anything. So you just know this is going to bring out all the "deep state" trolls like slave SESH and slave FORD And how easy is it to bring bring down a web site domain? Also, if "attacks" are directed against candatorial staff then how is that relevant to the actual voting process? Fuck you in your greedy spying ass, Micro$off. Putin got the best of you and he is about to do it all over again.

Story here, you fucking hopeless homoerotic sick fucks:

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/new...erm-campaigns/