NEW: Microsoft says it would give away software designed to improve the security of American voting machines, even as the tech giant said it had tracked 781 cyberattacks by foreign adversaries targeting political organizations so far this election cycle.
Microsoft said it has notified almost 10,000 customers in the past year that they've been targeted or compromised by nation-state cyberattacks. About 84 percent of the attacks targeted enterprise customers — generally at organizations — and about 16 percent targeted consumer personal email accounts, the company said.
The majority of the suspected nation-state attacks came from Iran, North Korea and Russia, Microsoft said.Last August, Microsoft rolled out a service it calls AccountGuard, now in use in 26 countries on four continents.
"Many of the democracy-focused attacks we've seen recently target NGOs and think tanks and reflect a pattern that we also observed in the early stages of some previous elections," Microsoft said."A spike in attacks on NGOs and think tanks that work closely with candidates and political parties, or work on issues central to their campaigns, serves as a precursor to direct attacks on campaigns and election systems themselves."Echoing the warnings of U.S.
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