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Iran's run hacking efforts: What we cognize
Iranian hackers sought to involvement President Biden's run in accusation stolen from the rival run of erstwhile President Donald Trump, sending unsolicited emails to radical connected to the Democratic president successful an effort to interfere successful the 2024 election, the FBI and different national agencies said Wednesday.
There's nary grounds that immoderate of the recipients responded, officials said, preventing the hacked accusation from surfacing successful the last months of the intimately contested election.
The hackers sent emails successful precocious June and aboriginal July to radical who were associated with Mr. Biden's run before helium dropped out. The emails "contained an excerpt taken from stolen, non-public worldly from erstwhile President Trump's run arsenic substance successful the emails," according to a U.S. authorities statement.
In precocious July, officials with the FBI, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Department of Homeland Security said that Tehran had started a run that was moving to weaken Trump's candidacy, portion Russia was attempting to bash the opposite.
Last month, sources told CBS News that the FBI was investigating whether Iranian hackers had targeted radical associated with some the Trump and Biden-Harris campaigns.
In effect to the revelation, Harris run spokesperson Morgan Finkelstein told CBS News successful a connection Wednesday evening that "we're not alert of immoderate worldly being sent straight to the campaign," adding that "a fewer individuals were targeted connected their idiosyncratic emails with what looked similar a spam oregon phishing attempt."
Finkelstein said the run has "cooperated with the due instrumentality enforcement authorities since we were made alert that individuals associated with the then-Biden run were among the intended victims of this overseas power operation."
Trump run spokesperson Karoline Leavitt told CBS News successful a connection that "this is further impervious the Iranians are actively interfering successful the predetermination to assistance Kamala Harris and Joe Biden due to the fact that they cognize President Trump volition reconstruct his pugnacious sanctions and basal against their reign of terror."
The Trump run disclosed connected Aug. 10 that it had been hacked and said Iranian actors had stolen and distributed delicate interior documents. At slightest 3 quality outlets — Politico, The New York Times and The Washington Post — were leaked confidential worldly from wrong the Trump campaign. So far, each has refused to uncover immoderate details astir what it received.
Politico reported that it began receiving emails connected July 22 from an anonymous account. The root —an AOL email relationship identified lone arsenic "Robert"— passed on what appeared to beryllium a probe dossier that the run had seemingly done connected the Republican vice statesmanlike nominee, Ohio Sen. JD Vance. The papers was dated Feb. 23, astir 5 months earlier Trump selected Vance arsenic his moving mate.
A Microsoft menace quality study last month provided examples astir the actions of Iranian groups seeking to power the 2024 election.
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