Democratic National Committee hack

November 10, 2016

Russian ‘Dukes’ of Hackers Pounce on Trump Win

This post was originally published on this siteLess than six hours after Donald Trump became the president-elect of the United States, a Russian hacker gang perhaps best known for breaking into computer networks at the Democratic National Committee launched a volley of targeted phishing campaigns against American political think-tanks and non-government organizations (NGOs). One of the phishing emails in the latest political espionage attack launched by The Dukes. Source: Volexity. That’s according to a new report from Washington, D.C.-based cyber incident response firm Volexity. The firm’s researchers say they’ve been closely monitoring the activities of an well-established Russian malware development gang known […]