Trump Campaign CLAIMS That They Were Hacked By Iran
Over the weekend I brought you a story about Microsoft discovering that threat actors connected to Iran were/are going after political leaders in the US and running a disinformation campaign to try and influence the upcoming US Presidential election in their favour. The report by Microsoft didn’t name victims, but the campaign of Donald Trump has started to claim that they were hacked by Iran:
Former President Donald Trump’s campaign said Saturday that some of its internal communications had been hacked.
The acknowledgment came after POLITICO began receiving emails from an anonymous account with documents from inside Trump’s operation.
The campaign blamed “foreign sources hostile to the United States,” citing a Microsoft report on Friday that Iranian hackers “sent a spear phishing email in June to a high-ranking official on a presidential campaign.” Microsoft did not identify the campaign targeted by the email and declined to comment Saturday. POLITICO has not independently verified the identity of the hacker or their motivation, and a Trump campaign spokesperson, Steven Cheung, declined to say if they had further information substantiating the campaign’s suggestion that it was targeted by Iran.
Funny enough, Iran didn’t take long to fire back. They posted this to Twitter:
عاجل | ممثلية #إيران بالأمم المتحدة: ننفي الادعاءات بشأن قرصنة #إيران للحملة الانتخابية للمرشح الرئاسي دونالد ترمب
I find it interesting that they specifically say that they didn’t hack Trump’s campaign. But they didn’t say anything else about the Microsoft report. Which if you haven’t read it yet, you should. It’s linked above. The fact that they only refuted the hacking of Trump’s campaign kind of suggests that they might be telling the truth. Now yes, Iran could be lying about this. After all, it’s not in their interest to admit to pwning the Trump campaign. But it is also plausible that they are telling the truth seeing as Trump lies as often as the rest of us take breaths. And what doesn’t help the Trump campaign’s credibility is the fact that they provided little to no detail. Now that too isn’t unusual as a lot of organizations don’t want to serve up a lot of detail about the fact that they got pwned. But again in the case of Trump and his campaign, they have a history of saying stuff with little to no evidence to back it up.
My opinion is that Trump and company have a disgruntled insider who leaked some documents that are on the damaging side to POLITICO, and the Trump campaign as a result is blaming Iran for a problem that is internal in nature. Until the truth is actually revealed, we can only speculate.
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Trump Campaign CLAIMS That They Were Hacked By Iran
Over the weekend I brought you a story about Microsoft discovering that threat actors connected to Iran were/are going after political leaders in the US and running a disinformation campaign to try and influence the upcoming US Presidential election in their favour. The report by Microsoft didn’t name victims, but the campaign of Donald Trump has started to claim that they were hacked by Iran:
Former President Donald Trump’s campaign said Saturday that some of its internal communications had been hacked.
The acknowledgment came after POLITICO began receiving emails from an anonymous account with documents from inside Trump’s operation.
The campaign blamed “foreign sources hostile to the United States,” citing a Microsoft report on Friday that Iranian hackers “sent a spear phishing email in June to a high-ranking official on a presidential campaign.” Microsoft did not identify the campaign targeted by the email and declined to comment Saturday. POLITICO has not independently verified the identity of the hacker or their motivation, and a Trump campaign spokesperson, Steven Cheung, declined to say if they had further information substantiating the campaign’s suggestion that it was targeted by Iran.
Funny enough, Iran didn’t take long to fire back. They posted this to Twitter:
That translates to this:
I find it interesting that they specifically say that they didn’t hack Trump’s campaign. But they didn’t say anything else about the Microsoft report. Which if you haven’t read it yet, you should. It’s linked above. The fact that they only refuted the hacking of Trump’s campaign kind of suggests that they might be telling the truth. Now yes, Iran could be lying about this. After all, it’s not in their interest to admit to pwning the Trump campaign. But it is also plausible that they are telling the truth seeing as Trump lies as often as the rest of us take breaths. And what doesn’t help the Trump campaign’s credibility is the fact that they provided little to no detail. Now that too isn’t unusual as a lot of organizations don’t want to serve up a lot of detail about the fact that they got pwned. But again in the case of Trump and his campaign, they have a history of saying stuff with little to no evidence to back it up.
My opinion is that Trump and company have a disgruntled insider who leaked some documents that are on the damaging side to POLITICO, and the Trump campaign as a result is blaming Iran for a problem that is internal in nature. Until the truth is actually revealed, we can only speculate.
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This entry was posted on August 12, 2024 at 9:21 am and is filed under Commentary with tags Hacked, Trump. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.