American security agencies have targeted Tehran in 2024 Presidential elections has been accused of trying to influence Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. Iran has a hand.
According to the French news agency (AFP), the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), Federal Bureau of Investigation (The FBI) and a statement from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) confirmed the Trump campaign’s claim earlier this month that it was possibly targeted by Iran.
Security agencies say, ‘We have seen an increase in Iran’s aggressive activities during this election, particularly influence peddling targeting the American people and cyber attacks targeting the presidential campaign. .’
“This includes recently reported activities targeting former President Trump’s campaign, which the (intelligence community) attributes to Iran,” he said.
The U.S. election is on November 5, and campaign officials for Trump and his rival, Kamala Harris, say they have been targeted by cyber attacks in recent weeks. US technology companies have also said they have detected such attacks.
The statement released Monday said the U.S. intelligence community is “convinced” that Iran used social engineering and other methods to target individuals in both political campaigns and that these efforts were aimed “at the U.S. election process.” had to be influenced.’
The Trump campaign said on August 10 that it had been hacked, and accused ‘foreign sources’ of distributing a dossier on internal communications and fellow candidate JD Vance.
Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung said in a statement that these documents were obtained illegally from foreign sources hostile to the United States, with the intent to interfere in the 2024 election and disrupt our democratic process. ‘
The Trump campaign said Iran was behind the move after Politico reported it had received emails with campaign material from a source who declined to be identified. was given
Harris’ campaign was targeted
Steven Cheung, a spokesman for Trump’s campaign, cited a Microsoft report this week that said Iranian hackers “sent a spoofed email to a senior official during the presidential campaign in June.”
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The material received by the American political digital newspaper ‘Politico’ includes research on the vetting of Trump’s vice-presidential nominee Vance.
In 2016, the Democratic National Committee’s emails were hacked, revealing internal party communications, including those about candidate Hillary Clinton. One hack was blamed on Russia.
Trump, who won the election, was criticized for encouraging the hack.
Democratic presidential candidate Harris’ campaign said on Aug. 13 that it too had been targeted by foreign hackers, but did not specify which country was behind the effort.
“In July, the campaign’s legal and security teams were notified by the FBI that we were involved in a foreign actor influence operation,” a Harris campaign official told AFP. has been targeted.’
Google said this month that Iran-backed hackers were targeting the Democratic and Republican presidential campaigns.
According to a threat report released by Google, APT42, a hacker group linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, has targeted high-profile figures and organizations in Israel and the United States, including government officials and political campaigners.
Google’s threat analysis group continues to see APT42 make unsuccessful attempts to compromise the personal accounts of people associated with Biden, Harris and Trump, the report said.
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