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The Russian hackers who stole emails from the Democratic National Committee as part of a campaign to interfere in the 2016 election have been trying to steal information from the U.S. Senate, according to a report published Friday by a computer security firm.

Russian state-linked hackers accused of targeting Democratic Party officials ahead of the 2016 US presidential election have turned their focus on the Senate, according to Trend Micro.

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

A hacking group heavily linked to the Russian government is attempting to steal U.S. Senate email login credentials and also appears to be preparing to disrupt the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea, according to new research by cybersecurity firms TrendMicro and ThreatConnect.

The US Senate was targeted last year by the same hacking group that broke into the Democratic National Committee servers during the 2016 presidential election, according to the cybersecurity firm Trend Micro.

Pawn Storm, the hacking group aligned to the Russian government that penetrated the Democratic National Committee, has mounted additional "brazen attacks" over the past eight months, including persistent targeting of the U.S. Senate internal email system, according to a cybersecurity firm that has tracked their progress.

As we enter a world that is increasingly instrumented and connected, we face a unique set of challenges to secure it. Exactly how best to do so is a much-debated subject, but I believe there is a solution to securing the Internet of Things (IoT). More of that in a moment. First, let’s get a sense of where we are today.

Ed Cabrera, chief cybersecurity officer at Trend Micro, says researchers at the company are "seeing a lot of innovation going on" in PoS malware. While the bot delivery method has been around for a while, attackers are evolving their strategies around distributing malware.

Serverless apps are not a new concept, but adoption of the model is growing among enterprises. Among those pushing greater use of serverless apps are major cloud vendors Amazon, Microsoft, and Google. Trend Micro vice president Mark Nunnikhovenexplains what you need to know about the security implications of serverless applications. He reviews the most secure designs, how to implement security, and what IT Ops need to understand about the trend.

Perhaps you've been hearing strange sounds in your home—ghostly creaks and moans, random Rick Astley tunes, Alexa commands issued in someone else's voice. If so, you haven't necessarily lost your mind. Instead, if you own one of a few models of internet-connected speaker and you've been careless with your network settings, you might be one of thousands of people whose Sonos or Bose devices have been left wide open to audio hijacking by hackers around the world.