Posted on 08/22/2018 10:05:42 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) has notified the FBI of what it believes to be an attempt to hack into its voter database, CNN reported Wednesday.
A Democratic source told the network that the organization received an alert early Tuesday that a fake login site had been created to try and obtain usernames and passwords from those seeking to access the database.
The alert was reportedly issued by the cloud service provider for the database and the San Francisco-based security firm Lookout.
The fake pages were designed to look like the site used by Democratic officials and candidates across the country to access a service called Voterbuilder, which itself hosts the voter database.
The source said that the DNC did not have any evidence that the database had been accessed or changed.
The Hill has reached out to the DNC and the FBI for comment.
The DNC has stepped up its cybersecurity efforts after the organization was hacked in 2016 by what was later revealed to be Russian military officers.
Lookout's vice president of security intelligence, Mike Murray, told CNN that the fake login site was "very convincing."
"It would have been a very effective attack," he said.
The described pages fit the description of spear-phishing attacks, the technique used in the 2016 hack of the organization.
DNC Chief Security Officer Bob Lord informed Democrats of the attempt on Wednesday, during a meeting of the Association of State Democratic Committees.
"These threats are serious and that's why it's critical that we all work together, but we can't do this alone. We need the [Trump] administration to take more aggressive steps to protect our voting systems. It is their responsibility to protect our democracy from these types of attacks," Lord said in a statement provided to CNN.
Special counsel Robert Mueller last month indicted 12 Russian agents in the 2016 DNC hack, part of his larger probe into Moscow's 2016 meddling.
The CNN report comes one day after Microsoft announced that it had shut down six fake domains mimicking websites for the Senate and two conservative think tanks. The company said that it had"no evidence these domains were used in any successful attacks before" the company seized them, "nor do we have evidence to indicate the identity of the ultimate targets of any planned attack involving these domains."
Microsoft said it believed Fancy Bear, the same Russian hacker group that was behind the 2016 DNC hack also created the fake domains.
The DNC is setting up a 'hacking' narrative to explain midterm loses.
Pure bull**it. Everyone knows the DNC has the finest Pakistani IT guys on the planet.
You guessed ‘er, Chester.
Yep, already getting that hacking meme stake driven into the ground.
Exactly.
Did John McCain pass the info to the FBI under orders from Harry Reid?
Na, that could never happen. /sar
jeff sessions needs to wake from his two year napathon to shut those pesky russkies down.
They probably did it THEMSELVES, to ratchet-up their ‘victim’ status.
The DNC is Evil!
Who gives a sh!t about a voter registration database built and maintained by a political party? It’s no more relevant to election security than a mailing list for a local charity.
I wish POTUS would call their bluff and make a huge push for voter ID, or, at the minimum paper ballots.
"Be careful what you wish for..."
Jeff has been zonkers ever since he consumed the California-style brownies. /sarc
BS...Onastyass said he didn’t even know what such things mean.
Propaganda - I’d be more surprised if there wasn’t a hack attack on a political campaigns servers. This just serves the story that the evil Russians are out to subvert the elections by attacking the heroic autobot Democrats in support of the evil decepticon Republicans. (Although I’m sure the RNC has been attacked too - it just wasn’t deemed newsworthy)
We all know it is a LIE.
Voter IDs are imperative. This should be a major part of Republicans’ campaigns.
ICE should be present at polling places.
I must have been channeling you.
This is an old Chicago election stunt just more high tech.
The DNC hired the Hacker to run their computers
A case of the firefighter covertly lighting fires to later fight and become the hero about.
Is “phishing” even considered hacking? I think it’s more social engineering.
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