American media outlets, including Politico, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Associated Press, said: She obtained classified information leaked from within the Trump campaign, among them, but refused to publish it.
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Later, US intelligence officials linked Iran to the hacking of the Trump campaign, and an attempt to hack the campaign of Joe Biden and Kamala HarrisAccording to the agency,
They stressed that the hacking operation was aimed at sowing discord and exploiting divisions within American society, and influencing the results of the elections, which Iran sees as “particularly important in terms of the impact it could have on its national security interests.”
Last week, officials revealed that in late June and early July, the Iranians sent a number of emails containing excerpts of hacked information to people associated with the Biden campaign.
The Harris campaign said: The messages resembled spam or phishing attempts, and condemned the hack by the Iranians as “unwelcome and unacceptable malicious activity.”
Last August, the campaign team of the Republican candidate for the US presidential elections, Donald Trump, announced on Saturday that it had been hacked, accusing “foreign sources” of leaking internal communications and a file on Jay Dee Vance, the vice presidential candidate.
Trump’s team hinted that Iran was behind the hacking operation, while Politico newspaper had previously reported that it had received emails containing information about the Republican candidate’s campaign from a source who refused to reveal his identity.
Trump campaign spokesman Stephen Cheung said in a statement: “These documents were illegally obtained from foreign sources hostile to the United States, with the intent of interfering in the 2024 elections and sowing chaos in our democratic process.”
Cheung touched on a report published by Microsoft at the time, indicating that Iranian hackers “sent a phishing email in June to a senior official in the presidential campaign.” The documents received by Politico included information about Jay DeVance, the vice presidential candidate if Trump wins the November elections.
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In 2016, emails belonging to the Democratic National Committee were also hacked. The leak revealed, in particular, internal exchanges related to Hillary Clinton, the candidate chosen by the party at the time to confront Trump.
According to a report issued by the technology giant, among the sites built by Iran that claim to be news platforms are the “New Thinker” site, which has positions that lean to the left and repeatedly insults former President Donald Trump, and another site targeting a conservative audience called “Savannah.” Time,” and focuses on Republican politics and gay issues.
According to the report issued by Microsoft’s Threat Analysis Center, these sites appear to be stealing some of their content from American publications using artificial intelligence tools.