[4th Reuters]-An organization that seems to be related to the Iranian government was found to have launched a cyber attack on Trump's election camp, which is aiming for re-election in the US presidential election next year. However, he did not succeed. A person familiar with the situation revealed on the 4th.
The US Microsoft <MSFT.O> announced that the organization which seems to be related to the Iranian government is hacking the election campaign of the US presidential election on the same day. He said the organization was able to confirm “large” cyberattacks against former US government officials, journalists covering international politics, and prominent Iranians living abroad.
According to the public information of the email server, the official website of the Trump faction uses Microsoft's cloud email service. A spokesperson for the faction said, “There are no signs that the campaign infrastructure has been targeted.”
According to Microsoft's blog, an organization called “Phosphorous” has attempted more than 2,700 attempts to find an email account held by a specific user over 30 days from August to September, and 241 accounts. Attacked. However, these attacks were not sophisticated.
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