2 weeks Ago By Jack Phillips
The FBI on Wednesday confirmed that Iran-backed hackers targeted former President Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign and tried to deliver that information to President Joe Biden’s campaign earlier this year. The FBI and the other agencies said that Iran has tried to send the stolen Trump data since June to media organizations. In August, the agencies said that Iran had launched a multifaceted approach to influence the U.
S. election and sow discord among the American electorate. “Foreign actors are increasing their election influence activities as we approach” the November election, the Wednesday joint statement said, adding that China and Russia are also trying to “exacerbate divisions in U.
S. society for their own benefit.” The campaign has “cooperated with the appropriate law enforcement authorities since we were made aware that individuals associated with the then-Biden campaign were among the intended victims of this foreign influence operation,” Finkelstein said.
“We’re not aware of any material being sent directly to the campaign; a few individuals were targeted on their personal emails with what looked like a spam or phishing attempt,” the statement reads. The former president linked the report to media-driven allegations that were made during and after the 2016 campaign that Russia sought to interfere with that year’s presidential election. It challenged the United States to provide evidence and said if the United States does so, it “will respond accordingly.
” “Now is a time when everyone in the judiciary needs to stay alert and be extra smart and vigilant in all aspects of our use and monitoring of our IT systems,” U.S. Circuit Judge Michael Scudder told reporters during a news conference after a meeting on Tuesday.
In September, the ODNI released a separate report saying that Iran, China, and Russia were “trying by some measure to exacerbate divisions in U.S. society for their own benefit” ahead of the Nov.
5 elections. However, it found that no foreign actors were trying to interfere in the “conduct of the 2024 elections” such as through “cyber or physical disruptions of election infrastructure.”.
