Cybersecurity
Microsoft Says It Stopped Cyberattacks on Three 2018 Candidates
- Attackers used a phony web page to attempt ‘phishing’ attacks
- Security forum looks at what’s next after 2016 interference
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Microsoft Corp. said it identified and stopped attempts to launch cyberattacks on three 2018 congressional candidates using a phony version of its website.
The targets, who it didn’t identify, were “all people who because of their positions might have been interesting from an espionage standpoint, as well as an election disruption standpoint,” Tom Burt, Microsoft’s corporate vice president for customer security and trust, said at the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado on Thursday.