Government-sponsored hacking attacks on other nations' democracies is going to be an ongoing concern from now on.
The campaign of the French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron has been targeted by what appear to be the same Russian operatives responsible for hacks of Democratic campaign officials before last year’s American presidential election, a cybersecurity firm warns in a new report. [...]
Security researchers at the cybersecurity firm, Trend Micro, said that on March 15 they spotted a hacking group they believe to be a Russian intelligence unit turn its weapons on Mr. Macron’s campaign — sending emails to campaign officials and others with links to fake websites designed to bait them into turning over passwords.
The group, dubbed "Fancy Bear" by security researchers, is the same government-sponsored hacking group that broke into Democratic National Committee servers, afterward leaking the information to WikiLeaks in an attempt to damage the Democratic presidential candidate in favor of the inept racist manchild opposing her. Now the same group is attempting to assist inept racist Marine Le Pen, presumably for the same reasons.
Putin's Russia has long been a hub for propaganda about other governments, but attempts to interfere more overtly in democratic elections via Russian hacking teams are becoming a trend. It looks like far-right nationalists across the globe can count on boosts from the Russian team.
In this country, meanwhile, efforts to probe the full extent of the Russian operations during the last election are still being sabotaged, blocked, or slow-walked by Republican lawmakers who were either directly involved with or gained substantive benefits from the campaign receiving that assistance. Which is a hell of a thing.