Iranian hackers tried to show interest in President Biden’s campaign Stolen information The FBI and other federal agencies said Wednesday that former President Donald Trump’s rival campaigns sent unsolicited emails to people with ties to the Democratic president in an attempt to interfere in the 2024 presidential election.
Officials said there was no evidence the recipients responded, preventing the hacked information from surfacing in the final months of a closely fought election.
The hackers sent emails to Biden campaign associates between late June and early July. Before you leave schoolAccording to a U.S. government statement, the emails “contained excerpts from non-public documents stolen from former President Trump’s campaign.”
In late July, officials from the FBI, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and the Department of Homeland Security Tehran is While China launched a campaign to undermine Trump’s candidacy, Russia was trying to do the opposite.
Last month, sources told CBS News that the FBI was investigating whether Iranian hackers targeted individuals associated with the Trump campaign and the Biden-Harris campaign.
Following the revelations, Harris campaign spokesperson Morgan Finkelstein told CBS News in a statement Wednesday evening that the campaign was “not aware of any materials being sent directly to the campaign,” adding that “several individuals were targeted with emails that appeared to be spam and phishing attempts.”
Finkelstein said the campaign “has been working with appropriate law enforcement authorities since learning that individuals associated with the then-Biden campaign were targeted in this foreign interference operation.”
“This is further evidence that Iran is actively interfering in the election to support Kamala Harris and Joe Biden because they know President Trump will reinstate harsh sanctions and resist their reign of terror,” Trump campaign spokeswoman Carolyn Leavitt told CBS News.
Microsoft Threat Intelligence Report last month He provided examples of actions by Iranian groups attempting to influence the 2024 elections.
“Not surprisingly, the latest revelations confirm that the Iranian effort is multi-pronged and intended to damage the Trump campaign,” Chris Krebs, former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, told CBS News on Wednesday. “This came on the same day as a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on foreign threats to our elections, during which Microsoft President Brad Smith described the foreign interference landscape as Russia versus Harris, Iran versus Trump.”
Trump campaign Released on August 10 The paper reported that Iranian officials had stolen and distributed classified internal documents after the hack. At least three news organizations, Politico, The New York Times, and The Washington Post, have leaked classified documents from within the Trump campaign. So far, the organizations have refused to disclose details of the documents they received.
Politico reported that they began receiving emails from an anonymous account on July 22. The source, an AOL email account identifying itself only as “Robert,” handed over what appeared to be a dossier of research the campaign had conducted on Republican vice presidential candidate Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance. The dossier was dated February 23, about five months before Trump selected Vance as his running mate.
A spokesman for Iran’s UN mission told CBS News in a statement on Wednesday that the FBI’s “allegations” are “fundamentally unfounded and completely unacceptable.”
“As Iran has already clearly and repeatedly stated, it has no motive or intention to interfere in the US elections and therefore categorically denies such accusations,” the statement said. “If the US government truly seeks the truth, it is incumbent on it to provide substantiated evidence in a formal and transparent manner in order to receive a correspondingly accurate answer.”
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