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Russians Sticking To Same Tactics For Targeting Election Systems, Krebs Says

By Cal Biesecker

Friday, August 23rd, 2019

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Russians Sticking To Same Tactics For Targeting Election Systems, Krebs Says

Christopher Krebs, former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency at DHS. Photo: DHS

The hacking techniques used by Russia against the U.S. ahead of the 2016 elections are still being used by that country to target election systems overseas, signaling these could be the same approaches used against others, including the U.S., in coming elections, the director of the Department of Homeland Security’s cyber agency said last week. More recent elections in the Ukraine, Montenegro and North Macedonia have shown the Russians are sticking to the “basics,” such as spear phishing and “targeting…

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