Russian hackers targeting US Senate 'exactly the way they attacked the Macron campaign' says cybersecurity firm

The Russian government-aligned hackers who penetrated the Democratic Party in the US have spent the past few months laying the groundwork for an espionage campaign against the Senate, a cybersecurity firm has said.

The revelation suggests the group, often nicknamed Fancy Bear, whose hacking campaign scrambled the 2016 US electoral contest, is trying to gather the emails of America's political elite.