Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told reporters North Korea launched a missile that flew for 45 minutes Friday, CNN reports, and Pentagon spokesperson Capt. Jeff Davis told Axios the DOD has assessed that the missile was an intercontinental ballistic missile, which flew 1,000 km before landing in The Sea of Japan.
Context: The flight time of this missile is longer than usual. The editor of The Nonproliferation Review, Josh Pollack, told Axios that "45 minutes is a very long time, longer even than the first ICBM test on July 4," which reportedly flew for 37 minutes.
Russian intelligence agents from the same unit behind the hacking of the Democratic National Committee in 2016 attempted to use Facebook to infiltrate French President Emmanuel Macron's election campaign earlier this year, per Reuters.
The strategy: Russian hackers pretended to be friends of friends of people in Macron's circle, ostensibly to gain personal information, plant malicious software, or gain access to their electronic accounts — an objective that seems to have failed.
Beyond directly targeting Macron associates, Russian bots also spammed Facebook with election-related material, leading the company to shut down at least 70,000 accounts.
