As France braces for the second round of its election, security researchers try to figure out if Russia was really behind the alleged hacking attempts against frontrunner Emmanuel Macron. After months of speculation on whether dreaded Russian hackers would try to meddle with the French elections the same way they did last year in America, cybersecurity researchers finally pointed the finger earlier this week.
In the last two months, according to the cybersecurity firm Trend Micro, the Russian hacking group known as “Fancy Bear” or APT28 registered at least four different fake domains in an apparent attempt to launch a phishing campaign against Emmanuel Macron, the moderate and pro-European candidate who won the election’s first round on Sunday.
The company, however, only published one of those domains, and didn’t reveal why it was so confident that Fancy Bear was behind the alleged phishing campaign.
Now, other researchers are finding new clues that appear to point to Fancy Bear.
Full Article: This Is the Evidence Linking Russian Hackers to the French Election – Motherboard.