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NY Times
BOSTON The Russian military intelligence unit that sought to influence the 2016 election appears to have a new target: conservative American think tanks that have broken with President Trump and are seeking continued sanctions against Moscow, exposing oligarchs or pressing for human rights.
In a report scheduled for release on Tuesday, Microsoft Corporation said that it detected and seized websites that were created in recent weeks by hackers linked to the Russian unit formerly known as the G.R.U. The sites appeared meant to trick people into thinking they were clicking through links managed by the Hudson Institute and the International Republican Institute, but were secretly redirected to web pages created by the hackers to steal passwords and other credentials.
Microsoft also found websites imitating the United States Senate, but not specific Senate offices or political campaigns.
The shift to attacking conservative think tanks underscores the Russian intelligence agencys goals: to disrupt any institutions challenging Moscow and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2018/08/21/us/politics/russia-cyber-hack.amp.html
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(32,731 posts)elections.
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(90,793 posts)...or political Party.
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(13,614 posts)This is putin's plan to consolidate his control over the KGOP and its agenda. Putin wants to destroy any conservative group critical of his actions (in other words, this operation targets those few conservative organizations that are critical of trump.)