Janice R. Andrews
In a big accusation, U.S. intelligence services said that Iranian hackers sent emails to members of Joe Biden’s re-election campaign that contained stolen materials from Donald Trump’s campaign. In a statement made on Wednesday, Iran was said to be trying to affect the upcoming U.S. presidential race. The emails, which contained “non-public” information from Trump’s 2024 campaign, were part of this effort.
The FBI, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and the U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence all said that Biden’s team did not answer the emails. That the attempts were made was admitted by both Biden and Trump. Biden’s team confirmed that no action was taken in response to the suspicious texts.
This claim adds Iran to the list of countries, along with Russia and China, that the US has found to be trying to meddle in the 2024 election. People say that these countries are trying to make American society more divided for their own political reasons.
Meta, the company that owns Facebook, also said in August that Iranian hackers had tried to attack both the Biden and Trump campaigns by getting into the messaging app WhatsApp. Hackers, pretending to be tech help staff from Google and Microsoft, tried to get into the accounts of campaign staff. There was no proof that accounts had been hacked, but Meta made the results public “out of an abundance of caution.”
As the U.S. gets ready for the election on November 5, worries about meddling from other countries have grown, and cyberattacks are now a big focus for national security agencies. Recently, both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, the Democratic candidate, said they were the targets of such threats.
