2024-08-16 07:44:13
US technology company Google said on Wednesday that an Iranian spying operation targeting US presidential election campaigns is continuing and widespread, targeting the email accounts of US government officials and people connected to them. know US Vice President Kamala Harris, President Joe Biden, and former President Donald Trump.
According to Google researchers, a group of hackers linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard hacked the personal email accounts of more than a dozen people close to Biden and Trump between May and May. The company is currently seeing failed attempts to access the accounts of people associated with Harris, Biden and Trump.
Iran denies the allegations
The Trump campaign has blamed Iran for the leaked documents, but the US government has not determined exactly who is responsible for the hack, and whether the two incidents are connected. For their part, Iranian authorities have denied the allegations, maintaining that “they have no intention or motive to interfere in the US presidential elections,” as reported by the CNN television network.
In the same report, Google has revealed that this group of hackers, which also focuses its cyberattack campaigns on Israel, increased its attacks in April to users with connections to the Israeli military and security forces, and government representatives and NGOs. In this case, they sent an email that appeared to be journalists asking for comment on the recent airstrikes.
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