Iranian Hackers Targeted Trump's Re-election Campaign
Source: NYT
By Nicole Perlroth and David E. Sanger
Oct. 4, 2019
Updated 5:03 p.m. ET
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.
News that Mr. Trumps campaign was an Iranian target came just hours after Microsoft said in a report 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.
The two people, who were not allowed to publicly discuss the investigation into the hacks, said it was not clear what information was taken in the attack on the Trump campaign. While Microsoft did not name Irans targets in its report, it found evidence that hackers successfully infiltrated email inboxes in at least four cases.
Tim Murtaugh, the Trump campaigns communications director, said in a statement that we have no indication that any of our campaign infrastructure was targeted.
The Iranian attack is the latest indication that cyberattacks and disinformation are likely to play a major role in the 2020 presidential campaign, as they did four years ago.
But the incentives to influence the election are likely to be very different than they were in 2016 when Russian hackers infiltrated the computer networks of Democrats and Republicans, then selectively leaked and disseminated Democrats emails, including those of John Podesta, chair of Hillary Clintons 2016 campaign, in an effort to harm Mrs. Clintons campaign.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/04/technology/iranian-campaign-hackers-microsoft.html
captain queeg
(10,252 posts)SayItLoud
(1,702 posts)Hope you find his tax returns.
mountain grammy
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(5,528 posts)Last edited Fri Oct 4, 2019, 08:23 PM - Edit history (1)
should have added a satire thingie
Ahpook
(2,751 posts)But, this is WAY to convenient!
StClone
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(9,263 posts)our hackers are as good as yours??
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,234 posts)Lexblues
(180 posts)We need that full un-redacted Mueller report. Transcripts of Trump's calls with Putin, MBS, and Xi. Am I missing anything?