Microsoft said it had seized fake websites, linked to a Russian military intelligence unit, meant to trick people into thinking they were sites for Republican-leaning think tanks that have criticized President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.
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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 […]
In the final days of empire things like this happen or so says Chris Hedges in his new book “America: The Farewell Tour” or so say the reviews. Just found it yesterday and he confirms much of what I have thought and felt about these times. This madness did not start with trump but he does most fully embody it.
While my country has done some wonderful things for the world it also has been a rich arrogant empire that has run roughshod over the world. Since we are unchallenged in the world maybe in an unconscious way we are set on a path to end the USA as it has been.
Will we go off into chaos and dictatorship or breakup and renewal? Meanwhile we are choking on our garbage, nuclear waste, dirty water, red tide, rising sea levels, increasingly chaotic weather patterns, fires, floods, overflowing prisons, child concentration camps…and the national discourse is about what!?
I agree, Will, and the USA has become a authoritarian, totalitarian, oligarchy which must change.