Hackers Targeting Both Trump & Biden Presidential Campaigns
Four years after Russian hackers went into the email accounts of prominent Democrats ahead of the 2016 election, Google has now confirmed that foreign adversaries are still cyber attacking accounts.
State-backed hackers from China have targeted employees working on the US presidential campaign of Joe Biden, a senior Google security official said and it now it appears that foreign hackers targeted the personal email accounts of staffers on the presidential campaigns of Democratic primary candidate Joe Biden and President Donald Trump.
The announcement, made on Twitter by the head of Google’s Threat Analysis Group, Shane Huntley, is the latest indication of the digital spying routinely aimed at top politicians.
It appears that state-backed hackers from China tried to target staffers on the Biden campaign, while Iranian hackers targeted the email accounts of Trump campaign staff.
Shane Huntley tweeted that the hackers had made phishing attempts on campaign staff emails: ‘Recently TAG saw China APT group targeting Biden campaign staff & Iran APT targeting Trump campaign staff with phishing. No sign of compromise. We sent users our government attack warning and we referred to fed law enforcement.’ A Google spokesperson has said that they had not seen evidence that any of the attempted attacks had been successful and they have now sent the information to federal law enforcement officials.
A spokesperson for the Trump campaign told reporters that said it had been “briefed that foreign actors unsuccessfully attempted to breach the technology of our staff. We are vigilant about cybersecurity and do not discuss any of our precautions.”
Both camapaign organisations say they are aware of phishing attempts on campiagn workers and have been preparing to withstand hacking attempts.
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