more ahead on president trump s former fixer. michael cohen is ready now to tell the special counsel that the president knew in advance of his son s meeting with russians claiming to have dirt on hillary clinton. the president says former lawyer is making it up. we ll get too that and much more with the headlines top of the hour with chris wallace joining us. see you then. dana: russian hacker targeted democratic senator claire mccaskill in 2017. the daily beast reporting russian s intelligence agency tried to hack the senator staff by using a password stealing technique. there s no evidence the hackers
he also served as u.s. attorney during the obama administration. i want to start with you, andrew. you guys right, the attempt against make haskill s office was a variant of the password stealing technique used by russia s so-called fancy hackers against john podesta in 2016. tell us what they did. that s right, katy. what they did was they tried to replicate what they did to john po te podesta in 2016. he was hillary s campaign chairman. they targeted senator make haskill s office such that it sent links that look like an authentic email from microsoft saying you needed to change your password and then it brought them to a page that looked ex t exactly like the microsoft portal where you change your password. if the individual followed that prompt and typed in their password, that gave those russian hackers basically a way
elections this year. here s the report from daily beast. quote, senator claire mccaskill is a top target for republicans. it turns out russia s fancy bear hackers are going after her staff, too. that makes the missouri democrat the first identified target of the election interference. the attempt against her office was a varant of the password stealing technique against clinton campaign chairman in 2016. they sent forged notification e-mails claiming the target s microsoft exchange password had expired and instructing the target to change it. if they clicked on the link, they would be tina login page, a single sign-on point for e-mail and other services. each one had a different link coded with the recipient s e-mail address. that s important because that allowed the fake password change
elections this year. here s the report from daily beast tonight. ? senator claire mccaskill is a top target for republicans looking to grow their slim senate majority in 2018. turns out russia s fancy bear hackers are going after her staff, too. that makes the missouri democrat the first identified target of the kremlin s 2018 election interference. the attempt against her office was a variant of the password stealing technique used by russian hackers against john podesta in 2016. they sent forged notification e-mails claiming the target s microsoft exchange password expired and ininstructing the target to change it. if the target clicks on the link, they would be taken to a convincing replica of the u.s. senate s log-in page a single sign in point for e-mail and other services. each senate phishing e-mail had a different link coated with the recipient s e-mail address. that s important because that allowed the fake password change website, the fake one, to