“The phishing pages we are talking about are very personalized web pages to look like the real address,” Mr. Mahjoubi added. “If you are speed reading as you sign on, and everybody speed reads online, it’s something you might not notice,” Mr. Mahjoubi said. The attacks coincided with highly slanted articles about Mr. Macron on the French language services of Sputnik and RT, formerly Russia Today. The coincidence of the hacking of the Macron campaign website, the phishing attacks and the slanted articles caused Mr. Mahjoubi to consider that there might be Russian involvement. The success of its cyberattacks in the United States has only bolstered the Russian hacking group’s ambitions, security researchers say.

Source: New York Times April 25, 2017 00:39 UTC