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Thursday, September 10, 2020

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• U.S.: Total confirmed cases: ~6,391,000; deaths: ~192,000

• Source: Johns Hopkins University

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1/ Russia, China, and Iran have all recently attempted to hack people and organizations involved in the 2020 presidential election. An investigation by Microsoft’s cybersecurity experts concluded that it’s the same Russian military unit that oversaw the “hack and leak” campaign of Democratic emails during the 2016 presidential election. The report said the Russian group had targeted more than 200 organizations that “are directly or indirectly affiliated with the upcoming U.S. election.” Chinese hackers targeted Biden’s campaign and at least one person formerly associated with the Trump administration, while Iranian hackers tried to log into the accounts of Trump administration officials and Trump campaign staff. The findings come a day after a whistleblower claimed that the White House and the Department of Homeland Security had tried to “censor or manipulate” intelligence on Russia’s interference because it “made the president look bad,” and instructed government analysts to focus on interference by China and Iran. (CNN / Washington Post / New York Times / CNBC)

• The U.S. Treasury sanctioned a member of the Ukrainian Parliament for alleged efforts to interfere in the U.S. presidential election, accusing him of being “an active Russian agent” involved in Moscow’s “covert influence campaign” to interfere in the 2020 U.S. election. Andrii Derkach, who met with Rudy Giuliani in December, had promoted “false and unsubstantiated” allegations about Biden “from at least late 2019 through mid-2020.” Derkach had also worked with Giuliani to dig up information on Biden, and his son Hunter. Three other Russian nationals who also sanctioned – Artem Lifshits, Anton Andreyev and Darya A...

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