Nov 10, 2016 : Russian Hackers Target U.S. Think Tanks
📅 - American think tanks are now being targeted by Russian hackers in a spearphishing campaign following the recent historic election. Spearphishing is a fake email technique that tricks the victim into giving the hackers total access to their computer and data. The fake emails are claiming to be related to Tuesday's vote. John Podesta, the Clinton camapign's chief of staff, was recently a victim of spearphishing and had his emails leaked recently.
The attacks are being blamed on Russian hackers known as COZY BEAR or APT29. These same hackers are being blamed for the Democratic National Committee hack and the following leaks.
The Council on Foreign Relations and the Brookings Institute Foreign Policy were among the first to report the spearphishing attacks.
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