A phishing campaign, which the FBI believes is linked to Iran, targeted members of the Trump and Harris camps, who are seeking to be elected president of the United States later this year. While bad actors reportedly tried to poach several advisers to the Biden-Harris and Trump campaigns, The Washington Post Trump’s senior adviser Susie Wiles was specifically named as one of the targets.
In June, federal agents worked with Microsoft and Google when they went on the job investigates spear phishing emails to presidential candidates’ headquarters. Google recently last published a report It details how the Iranian government-backed threat actor APT42 has been targeting high-profile users in Israel and the US for years. He also confirmed that the threat analysis team continues to “observe unsuccessful attempts from APT42 to compromise the personal accounts of individuals associated with President Biden, Vice President Harris, and former President Trump, including current and former government officials and individuals associated with the campaigns.” Apparently, the company had to thwart multiple attempts by hackers to access employee email accounts.
Roger Stone, an unofficial adviser to Trump, was the victim of phishing emails sent by Iranian hackers who later took control of his account and were able to send messages with phishing links to other people, the feds said. Authorities have reportedly found no evidence that the hackers successfully hacked the account of anyone at the Harris camp.
The feds blamed Iran and Russia four years ago for spreading disinformation about the 2020 US presidential election. However, the US still does not see Iran as a major threat in terms of cyberattacks — The Post Officials are concerned that other countries, such as Russia and China, may launch more sophisticated attacks that may not be easily detected, he said. US authorities He closed Russia Despite various attempts to meddle in US elections over the years, officials even believe that Vladimir Putin directly ordered the launch of a campaign to destabilize the American vote and smear Hillary Clinton when he was running for president in 2016.
