Microsoft says it has found a Russian operation targeting U.S. political institutions

San Francisco • A group affiliated with the Russian government created phony versions of six websites — including some related to public policy and to the U.S. Senate — with the apparent goal of hacking into the computers of people who were tricked into visiting, according to Microsoft, which said Monday night that it discovered and disabled the fake sites.The effort by the notorious APT28 hacking group, which has been publicly linked to a Russian intelligence agency and activel