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Election Security Threats Keep Growing As Voting Nears
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World - South China Morning Post
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Iran is accelerating online activity that appears intended to influence the US election, in one case targeting a presidential campaign with an email phishing attack, Microsoft said on Friday.
Iranian actors also have spent recent months creating fake news sites and impersonating activists, laying the groundwork to stoke division and potentially sway American voters this fall, especially in swing states, the technology giant found.
The findings in Microsoft’s newest threat intelligence report s..
The Guardian
Iran hackers target US officials to influence election, Microsoft says
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Iran-linked hackers targeted US presidential campaign officials and county-level government accounts in attempts to influence the 2020 election, according to Microsoft. The IRGC intelligence unit sent a spear-phishing email to a high-ranking campaign official, while another IRGC-linked group compromised a county-level government account through a password spray operation. Iran also created covert news sites Nio Thinker and Savannah Time and used clandestine social media accounts to sow political..
Inc.com
Election Security Threats Keep Growing As Voting Nears
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