Google says Iranian efforts to hack US presidential campaigns are ongoing and wide-ranging

Google says Iranian hackers are trying to access emails of Harris and Trump

Posing as trusted senders, they're trying to persuade the candidates' staff to hand over login details.

Google says Iranian group trying to hack US presidential campaigns

NEW YORK — Google said Wednesday that an Iranian group linked to the country's Revolutionary Guard had tried to infiltrate the personal email accounts of roughly a dozen people linked to President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump since May.  The tech company's threat intelligence arm said the group was still actively targeting people associated with Biden, Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, who replaced Biden as the Democratic ca…

A Single Iranian Hacker Group Targeted Both Presidential Campaigns, Google Says

APT42, which is believed to work for Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, targeted about a dozen people associated with both Trump and Biden’s campaigns this spring, according to Google’s Threat Analysis Group.

Iranian-backed cyber group ramps up phishing against Israel, US targets: Google

An Iranian-backed cyber group is carrying out an “aggressive, multi-pronged” effort to target the U.S. and Israel and interfere with the American presidential election, Google analysts said in a Wednesday blog post. The group, APT42, is associated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and has consistently targeted high-ranking U.S. and Israeli officials, including current and…

Iranian Effort to Hack Campaigns Is Wide-Ranging

“Google said Wednesday that an alleged Iranian hacking operation aimed at US presidential campaigns is ongoing and more wide-ranging than previously known as the hackers continue to target the email accounts of current US officials and people associated with Vice President Kamala Harris, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump,” CNN reports.

Google confirms Iran-linked hackers targeted Trump, Biden campaigns

The Google Threat Analysis Group wrote Wednesday that APT42 had targeted “the personal email accounts of roughly a dozen individuals affiliated with President Biden and with former President Trump.”