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pepperbear

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Fri Jan 12, 2018, 12:41 PM Jan 2018

Report: Cyber hackers target US Senate

https://www.apnews.com/9a6888c2163f43a7913c808e8cf9bc6e/Cybersecurity-firm:-US-Senate-in-Russian-hackers'-crosshairs

aligned hackers who penetrated the Democratic Party have spent the past few months laying the groundwork for an espionage campaign against the U.S. Senate, a cybersecurity firm said Friday.

The revelation suggests the group often nicknamed Fancy Bear, whose hacking campaign scrambled the 2016 U.S. electoral contest, is still busy trying to gather the emails of America’s political elite.
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Report: Cyber hackers target US Senate (Original Post) pepperbear Jan 2018 OP
our elections are already compromised by GOP filth, now the whole thing is gone Eliot Rosewater Jan 2018 #1
but, but, but, it's all fake news. onecaliberal Jan 2018 #2
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