Iran-backed hackers target Harris and Trump presidential campaigns – Google report
Google reported that Iranian hackers, associated with the group"APT42" linked to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, targeted the US presidential campaigns of Kamala Harris and Donald Trump .
Google on Tuesday confirmed that hackers backed by Iran are targeting the campaigns of US presidential rivals Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. "In July, the campaign legal and security teams were notified by the FBI that we were targeted by a foreign actor influence operation," a Harris campaign official told AFP.
While technical tools abound in hacker arsenals, some opt for"social engineering" tactics that trick people into clicking on booby-trapped links or logging in to realistic replicas of legitimate web pages.In May and June of this year, the Iranian hacker group's targets included personal email accounts of about a dozen people affiliated with Biden or Trump and Google blocked numerous attempts by APT42 to log in to their accounts, according to the report.
"This spring and summer, they have shown the ability to run numerous simultaneous phishing campaigns, particularly focused on Israel and the United States." The Trump campaign has suggested that Iran was behind the breach, which resulted in private documents being sent to reporters, including research the campaign used to vet running mate J.D. Vance.
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