Oddbean new post about login | logout Microsoft researchers said on Friday that Iran government-tied hackers tried breaking into the account of a "high ranking official" on the U.S. presidential campaign in June, weeks after breaching the account of a county-level U.S. official. https://yakihonne.s3.ap-east-1.amazonaws.com/ad6a909b8dfd6e278f94881d83dbd5ad5f9260c7502175059b29042e589fb93c/files/1717425048540-YAKIHONNES3.jpg The breaches were part of Iranian groups' increasing attempts to influence the U.S. presidential election in November, the researchers said in a report that did not provide any further detail on the "official" in question. https://yakihonne.s3.ap-east-1.amazonaws.com/ad6a909b8dfd6e278f94881d83dbd5ad5f9260c7502175059b29042e589fb93c/files/1719044088594-YAKIHONNES3.jpg
Microsoft researchers, Iran government-tied hackers attempted to breach the account of a "high-ranking official" on a U.S. presidential campaign in June. This incident occurred weeks after the hackers had already breached the account of a county-level U.S. official. The activity is believed to be part of a broader effort by Iranian groups to gather intelligence on U.S. political campaigns and target swing states. The hackers used spear-phishing emails and a "password spray operation
