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On Monday , the U.S. administration officially accuse Iran of hack the Donald Trump campaign .
In a spliff statementissued by the FBI , the Office of the Director of National Intelligence ( ODNI ) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency ( CISA ) , the three authority said that the intelligence community assign the latterly let on hack and leak against the Trump campaign to Iran .
“ The [ Intelligence Community ] is convinced that the Iranians have through social engineering and other efforts sought access to individuals with direct admission to the presidential campaigns of both political parties . Such action , including thefts and disclosure , are intended to charm the U.S. election process , ” read the affirmation . “ It is important to note that this approaching is not new . Iran and Russia have apply these manoeuvre not only in the United States during this and anterior Union election round but also in other countries around the mankind . ”
The Persian government denied the accusation in a statement sent by its Permanent Mission to the United Nations .
“ Such allegations are unsubstantiated and devoid of any standing . As we have antecedently announced , the Islamic Republic of Iran harbor neither the intention nor the motive to interfere with the U.S. presidential election . Should the U.S. governance really trust in the validness of its claims , it should supply us with the apposite evidence — if any — to which we will respond accordingly , ” learn the statement sent to TechCrunch via electronic mail .
A spokesperson for the Iranian military mission to the UN did not directly respond to a serial of detailed question on Tuesday morning , saying the ambassador was “ still in seam and starting to awaken up . ”
On August 10,Politico first reportedthat the Trump campaign had been hacked , and that someone calling themselves “ Robert ” had reach out to the news website tender documents allegedly stolen from the cause . The New York TimesandThe Washington Postlater also revealed they had been contacted by the same somebody and have what looked like similar file .
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In a social medium position , Trump himselfaccusedIran , saying “ they should n’t be doing anything of this nature , ” and say it was Microsoft that alerted him and his political campaign .
A day before the Politico written report , Microsoftpublished a reportsaying an Iranian government - back hacking group “ sent a fishgig phishing e-mail in June to a high - ranking official on a presidential campaign from the compromise email account of a former senior advisor . ” Last week , Google ’s Threat Analysis Group pronounce it had grounds that Iran - backed drudge had targeted the email accounts of several people affiliate with President Biden and Trump as early as May .
Multiplereportshave identified Roger Stone , a longtime friend and consultant of Trump , as the person who was first hacked and whose account was then used to stress to hack officials on the Trump campaign .
Unlike in 2016 when the Russian government transmit a months - long drudge and leakage operation , for now news organizations have not covered the leak documents . Instead , they have focused on the drudge and leak out itself , prove news organizations may have watch a example from eight days ago , when they inadvertently amplified the Russians ’ political campaign .
