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SAN FRANCISCO Iranian hackers targeted President Trumps re-election campaign, two people with knowledge of the attacks said on Friday, in a sign of how cyberattacks could become a fixture of the 2020 presidential election.
Microsoft said in a report earlier Friday that hackers, with apparent backing from Irans government, had made more than 2,700 attempts to identify the email accounts of current and former United States government officials, journalists covering political campaigns and accounts associated with a presidential campaign.
It was not clear what information if any had been taken in the attack on the Trump campaign, according to the two people, who were not allowed to publicly discuss the investigation. While the Microsoft report did not name Irans targets, it found evidence that hackers had infiltrated email inboxes in at least four cases. But the four successful hacks tracked by Microsoft did not belong to a presidential campaign.
Tim Murtaugh, the Trump campaigns communications director, said in a statement that we have no indication that any of our campaign infrastructure was targeted.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/04/technology/iranian-campaign-hackers-microsoft.html
htuttle
(23,738 posts)octoberlib
(14,971 posts)C_U_L8R
(44,997 posts)We just can't believe anything when it comes to that Trump liar.
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)flying_wahini
(6,588 posts)another country (like Iran) when they originate in another (like Russia). Hmmmm.
TidalWave46
(2,061 posts)Republicans refusal to act is going to damage us all. They wont be free from the interference. Specially considering the long list of people Trump has pissed off.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)never are singular. They attack in prongs. One prong launches Trojan attacks while some others monitor the defenses against the attacks with the goal of learning enough to defeat the defenses during actual attacks.