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Election Hacks Are Beginning to Look Like the New No= +rmal

Russian hackers tried, unsuccessfully, to hijack the French elect= +ion=E2=80=94the U.K. and Germany are likely to be targeted next.
May 8, 2017
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French citizens have elected the centrist Emmanuel Macron as president, despite an unwe= +lcome last-minute leak of his campaign's documents over the Internet.

Late Friday evening, Macron found thousands of files and e-mails relating = +to his campaign, totaling at least nine gigabytes, shared online. Just= + ahead of the country's midnight campaigning cutoff, Macron's En Marche! te= +am had time to alert the public to the fact that the documen= +t dump was the result of a hack, and took the opportunity to implore m= +edia organizations to report on the news responsibly.

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As CNBC po= +ints out, French law bans the media from covering the election in the r= +un-up to voting, which means that domestic publications had little chance t= +o run the story. That didn't stop bots on Twitter, though, which appear to = +have been widely circulating links during the weekend.

The Guardian repo= +rted Monday that two security research firms, Flashpoint Intellige= +nce and Trend Micro, both believe that the Russian hacking group sometimes known as Fancy Bear or Advanced Persiste= +nt Threat 28 was behind the attack. That's the same outfit believed to= + be responsible for attacks leveled at the Democratic party during the 2016 U.S. presidential elections, and one that=E2=80=99s also thought to be tied to the Russian army=E2= +=80=99s foreign military intelligence agency.

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It appears that the hacks were made possible by spear-phishing attacks, = +in which En Marche! team members were sent links purporting to be from repu= +table services in order to obtain login credentials. Analysis of the techni= +ques used suggests that Fancy Bear hackers were responsible = +for both the fake websites used during the Macron hacks and those that= + helped them target the Democratic party.

Macron=E2=80=99s team was a= +pparently aware that it had been hacked, and the Daily Beast even reports that the campaign injected its= + own fake content into the files obtained by hackers in order to cause conf= +usion. Meanwhile, some of the published content is also believed to have be= +en edited on computers running Russian-language operating systems, suggesti= +ng that the hackers may have tried to add to the information that was = +claimed to come from Macron and his team.

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Ultimately, of course, the leak didn=E2=80=99t damage Macron's fort= +unes, as he secured 66 percent of the votes, easily beating his far-right opponent, Marine Le Pen, who notched = +up just 34 percent. But the news does serve to highlight the fact that the = +hacks that dominated the news during the Trump-Clinton presidential fight i= +n the U.S. were no aberration. Rather, they seem to be a new kind of normal= + in the election season of a Western country.

All eyes will now turn = +to the U.K. and Germany, which have elections scheduled on June 8 and Septe= +mber 24, respectively. Facebook today kick-started a campaign to alert British vot= +ers to the presence of fake news, even deleting thousands of accounts from = +its social network in a bid to halt the dissemination of misinformation. Th= +e real stuff, though, could still cause a problem if hackers get their= + hands on it=E2=80=94something that these days looks all but inevitable.

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    Emmanuel Macron (C), head of the political movement En Marche !, = +or Onwards !, and candidate for the 2017 French presidential election, next= + to Mourad Franck Papazian (L), co-president of France's Armenian Organizat= +ions Coordination Council (CCAF, Conseil de Coordination des organisations = +Armenienne de France), speaks to the press... Purchase Licensing RightsNew Tab, opens new tab Read more
    FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The campaign of Emmanuel Macron, the favo= +rite to win France's presidential election, has been targeted by a cyber es= +pionage group linked by some experts to the Russian military intelligence a= +gency GRU.
    Feike = +Hacquebord, a researcher with security firm Trend Micro said he had found e= +vidence that the spy group, dubbed "Pawn Storm", targeted the Macron campai= +gn with email phishing tricks and attempts to install malware on the campai= +gn site.
    He said telltale di= +gital fingerprints linked the Macron attacks with those last year on the U.= +S. Democratic National Committee (DNC) the campaign of presidential candida= +te Hillary Clinton, and that similar techniques were used to target German = +Chancellor Angela Merkel's party in April and May of 2016.
    "We have seen that phishing sites= + were set up and the fingerprints were really the same actors as in the DNC= + breach," Hacquebord told Reuters.
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    Russia denied any involvement in the attacks on Ma= +cron's campaign.
    = +Security experts say Pawn Storm is known to let time pass before leaking st= +olen documents and that any hacking of Macron's campaign in recent months i= +s unlikely to influence the run-up to the May 7 second round. But, if docum= +ents have been stolen, they could be used to undermine Macron's presidency = +should he win.
    A = +spokesman for French government cyber security agency ANSSI confirmed the a= +ttacks on the Macron campaign, but declined to say whether the Russian-link= +ed group was to blame.
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    "What we can establish is that = +it=E2=80=99s the classic operation procedure of Pawn Storm," the spokesman = +said. "However, we will not attribute the attack because we can very easily= + be manipulated and the attacker could pass themselves off as somebody else= +."
    The Macron cam= +paign was not immediately available to comment.
    In the run-off vote, Macron, a liberal inter= +nationalist who has been critical of Russian foreign policy, will face far-= +right leader Marine Le Pen who has taken loans from Russian banks and advoc= +ated pro-Kremlin policies.
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    Hacquebord said the Pawn S= +torm group set up four fake email phishing accounts to mount attacks agains= +t Macron's "En Marche!", or "Onwards", using a fake server located at onedr= +ive-en-marche.fr and similar site names in March and April.
    The attack was mounted using co= +mputers based in France, Britain and other countries, he said.
    "These kinds of attacks are = +quite dangerous," Hacquebord said. "Credential phishing is probably a very = +good way to try and compromise a political party."
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    "WHY RUSSIA?"
    Pawn Storm, one of the world=E2=80= +=99s oldest cyber espionage groups, has also been called APT 28, Fancy Bear= +, Sofancy and Strontium by a range of security firms and government officia= +ls.
    Security fir= +m CrowdStrike has said the group may be associated with the Russian militar= +y intelligence agency GRU. Other U.S.-based firms Dell SecureWorks, FireEye= + and ThreatConnect have also found ties to the Russian government.
    Hacquebord's Tokyo-based= + Trend Micro has consistently said conclusive proof of Russian involvement = +is hard given the difficulty of attributing cyber attacks.
    "What (hacking) groups? From whe= +re? Why Russia? This slightly reminds me of accusations from Washington, wh= +ich have been left hanging in mid-air until now and do not do their authors= + any credit," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Monday.
    Hacquebord, author = +of a dozen reports over the past two years detailing the group=E2=80=99s me= +thods, said the attacks he uncovered appear to differ from ones described b= +y Macron=E2=80=99s campaign in February.
    Richard Ferrand, secretary-general of En Marche!, = +made the first direct accusation by a French political party that Russia wa= +s trying influence the outcome of the elections. (reut.rs/2pshZEF).
    Ferrand told a Feb 13 news conference that the En Marche cam= +paign was being hit by "hundreds if not thousands" of attacks on its networ= +ks, databases and sites from locations inside Russia.
    Pawn Storm has become widely known si= +nce 2014 for its increasingly brazen attacks against Western leaders, gover= +nments, militaries and industrial and media organizations.
    Its origins date back a decade e= +arlier to attacks on opposition activists in Russia and governments in neig= +hboring countries such as Ukraine.

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