Posted on 09/01/2020 3:00:50 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Hackers have been increasingly targeting websites of the reelection campaign of President Trump ahead of the November election, Reuters reported Tuesday.
According to July emails between senior company managers at security group Cloudflare obtained by Reuters, the attacks successfully disrupted two websites targeted by hackers on March 15 and June 6. Cloudflare was hired by the Trump campaign to defend websites against cyberattacks.
“As we get closer to the election, attacks are increasing in both numbers (and) sophistication,” the emails read, according to Reuters, with the emails noting that the attacks were becoming increasingly sophisticated and were recorded at high levels in June.
A spokesperson for the Trump campaign did not respond to The Hill’s request for comment on the report.
A spokesperson for Cloudflare declined to comment on the reported increased targeting of Trump campaign websites but pointed to the company’s work to protect campaigns and other organizations from attacks.
“Cloudflare blocks an average of 72 billion cyber threats each day for the more than 25 million Internet properties that rely on us,” the spokesperson told The Hill in a statement. “As a policy, we do not discuss specific users of our service without their permission — that includes the majority of presidential campaigns from both parties this cycle.”
The spokesperson highlighted the company’s Cloudflare for Campaigns program that U.S. political candidates free security services, along with providing free support for state and local election websites through the company’s Athenian Project.
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My fear is it will require an inside job to make it happen, say with some IT personnel planted in support teams.
Wanna stop this crap? Brand hackers with an H on their foreheads. Same idea for voter fraud participants... VF.
Hack away, it’s aint going to make a bit of difference. Trump is going to utterly obliterate the JoHo ticket.
yes, yes. Dems are criminals. We already knew and expected that.
Must be the Russians!
Every darkness in the universe is tied to the democrat party.
Or just track them down like animals and do dynamic entry on them, without mercy.
Silicon Valley thinks it can manipulate the election.
Works for me. I’m fed up with the lawlessness in this country. There used to be consequences for bad behavior. 100 years ago you got the noose for horse stealing.
Yet, many GOP officials, local, state, and national . . . use Gmail.
So the [former] Democrats [now socialists] get briefings from Google, re all that content.
In addition to, how many more people are using Gmail, and their content reveals to Google, political impurities aka efforts to preserve liberty.
Along with those who use Google services, lend to Google, the “fingerprint” of the computer equipment in use -— leaving notions of the use of cookies in the dust bin [ /bin/sarc/dust/ ].
[Ditto Facebook, Twitter]
IMHO
Exactly has to be the Russians time to start investigating the Biden campaign.
I don’t trust Cloudflare themselves either...
And the Chinese too.
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