Microsoft says it stopped cyberattacks on three US 2018 candidates

An promotional video plays behind a window reflecting a nearby building at the Microsoft office in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. May 15, 2017. REUTERS/Brian Snyder

Microsoft Corp said it identified and stopped attempts to launch cyberattacks on three 2018 US congressional candidates using a phoney version of its website. 

The targets, who it didn’t identify, were “all people who because of their positions might have been interesting from an espionage standpoint, as well as an election disruption standpoint”, Tom Burt, Microsoft’s corporate vice-president for customer security and trust, said at the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado on July 19.