Phishing attempts remain a major threat to presidential campaigns ahead of the 2020 election.
Cracking computer systems is hard. Cracking people? Not as hard.“Humans are curious,” said Oren Falkowitz, the CEO of Area 1 Security, a cybersecurity company that works with the campaigns of several Democratic presidential candidates. “You get a message that looks like it’s from your boss ... you want to click on it.”
Fake email, or phishing, attempts remain a major threat to presidential campaigns ahead of the 2020 election, just as they did four years ago when suspected Russian hackers swiped emails from the Democratic National Committee and a senior campaign official for Hillary Clinton. This type of email-based cyberattack remains a tried-and-true way for hackers to try to obtain access to computer systems and files, and security experts said they expect to see more of it in the months ahead.that Russians had launched a phishing campaign against Burisma Holdings, the Ukrainian natural gas company at the center of the Trump impeachment case.
Phishing attempts involve email messages that try to get people to click on suspicious links or open dodgy files, often leading to fake pages to steal login credentials. They date back to the rise of email in the 1990s, though these days malicious links can be found nearly anywhere, including in direct messages in social media apps.Get breaking news and insider analysis on the rapidly changing world of media and technology right to your inbox.
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