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The FBI says it’s investigating Iranian cyber hacking makes an attempt in opposition to the 2024 presidential marketing campaign of former U.S. President Trump.
“FBI is investigating the recent cyber intrusion into the Trump campaign,” the FBI advised Fresh News in a press release. “We can now confirm that the FBI is investigating.”
The 2024 presidential marketing campaign for Vice President Kamala Harris advised Fresh News it “vigilantly monitors and protects against cyber threats, and we are not aware of any security breaches of our systems.”
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a marketing campaign rally in Charlotte, N.C., Wednesday, July 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Matt Kelley)
The declare of Iranian involvement got here shortly after Microsoft issued a report detailing international brokers’ makes an attempt to intrude within the U.S. marketing campaign in 2024.
That report cited an occasion of an Iranian navy intelligence unit in June sending “a spear-phishing email to a high-ranking official of a presidential campaign from a compromised email account of a former senior advisor.”
Politico reported Saturday that it started receiving emails on July 22 from an nameless account. The supply — an AOL e mail account recognized solely as “Robert.”
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“These documents were obtained illegally from foreign sources hostile to the United States, intended to interfere with the 2024 election and sow chaos throughout our Democratic process” Trump marketing campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung mentioned.
Iran’s mission to the United Nations, when requested in regards to the declare of the Trump marketing campaign, denied being concerned.
However, Iran has lengthy been suspected of operating hacking campaigns focusing on its enemies within the Middle East and past. Tehran additionally lengthy has threatened to retaliate in opposition to Trump over the 2020 drone strike he ordered that killed distinguished Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani.
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a marketing campaign rally, Saturday, July 20, 2024, in Grand Rapids, Mich. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
In its report, Microsoft said that “foreign malign influence concerning the 2024 US election started off slowly but has steadily picked up pace over the last six months due initially to Russian operations, but more recently from Iranian activity.”
The evaluation continued: “Iranian cyber-enabled influence operations have been a consistent feature of at least the last three U.S. election cycles. Iran’s operations have been notable and distinguishable from Russian campaigns for appearing later in the election season and employing cyberattacks more geared toward election conduct than swaying voters.”
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“Recent activity suggests the Iranian regime — along with the Kremlin — may be equally engaged in election 2024,” Microsoft concluded.
Fresh News’ Jake Gibson and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
