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> Threat actors aligned with Russia and Belarus are targeting elected US officials supporting Ukraine, using attacks that attempt to compromise their email accounts, researchers from security firm Proofpoint said.

> Raggi declined to identify the targets except to say they included elected US officials and staffers at the federal government level as well as European entities.

> "In several instances among both US and European targeted entities, the individuals targeted by these phishing campaigns are vocal supporters of Ukraine in the Russia/Ukraine War and/or involved in initiatives pertaining to the support of Ukraine on an international stage," he added.

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Email phishing is not computer hacking.

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Yet it works in so many places.

Wonder if we'll see an increase in this with China sending Russia a team of cybersecurity experts

Nothing new. Russia has been hacking and attacking progressive US officials for at least 8 years

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It kind of is though? No one really bothers with traditional attacks like man in the middle anymore cause it’s much easier to trick someone into giving you their password. The point of hacking is to get access to information on a computer, social engineering attacks do that.

My point is, that anyone can trick a naive person to give up their password. They don't need to be a "Hacker" and they often aren't. The article's title is misleading and sensationalized.

You at right in the technical sense, but I think you are just nitpicking. If someone convinces grandma to give them her Facebook login, grandma says she got hacked, and would probably call that person a hacker. GPT isn’t really an AI, but we call it that anyways because how society uses words doesn’t stick to a single dictionary definition.

> It kind of is though?

If anything it's person hacking. There are still plenty of ways to go after the tech directly, but as you say generally the weakest point in a system from a security standpoint is the bag of meat operating it.

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"If you know we exist, and you don't expect us to do this and prepare for it, then you deserve to get hacked." -Russia probably

The title is sensationalized and misleading though:

There's no way to know the culprits were Pro-Russian.

There's no indication they were Hackers.

They didn't only target US government employees.

No mention if other (not pro-Ukraine) politicians were also targeted, or if it was only those who support the war.

It could just be that US officials were caught in a large drag-net operation.

Slow news day?

And it’s obvious which candidates are supporting Russia.

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Very good idea, I'm sure this would never backfire!

Nothing new there. Russia have been at it for nearly 10 years.

Like when the progressive caucus sent a letter to the president at the beginning of the conflict, calling for sanction relief for Russia? Both parties have elements of Russian supporters.

You have clearly read at least part of the article since you started this thread by claiming phishing is not hacking. The article also states that the group Proofpoint was tracking was at the very least Russia aligned. The scripts they were using were customized to target NATO and NATO aligned organizations. We know they were targeting pro NATO and pro Ukraine officials because they have attacked multiple countries, and all their targets fit that bill. This is in the first two paragraphs of the article.

Social engineering is the term.

Huh. Interesting.

Tankies aren't progressive they just ate the propaganda

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I think the letter was about asking Biden to continue attempting to negotiation wasn’t it? Not sanction relief.

Sent to Russia? Is there any limit to how Chinese can abuse their own people?!

most likely. and they need to go as well. this standard whataboutism always has the same answer: Everyone that supports russia has to go, don't care what they are or represent. are you a democrat and think that the russian invasion is justified? BYEEEEE. are you a republican and think that the russian invasion is justified? BYEEEEE.

it's not hard. all traitors have to go, a crime is a crime. and this is what will you will hear from any proper progressive. you always have the nutjobs on each end of the spectrum but most level headed progressive people will tell you this.