The FBI said Monday it is investigating cyber hacking attempts of Iran against the 2024 presidential campaign of former U.S. President Trump.
The FBI says it is investigating Iranian cyber hacking attempts against the 2024 presidential campaign of former U.S. President Trump.
“FBI is investigating the recent cyber intrusion into the Trump campaign”, the FBI told Fox News in a statement. “We can now confirm that the FBI is investigating.”
The 2024 presidential campaign for Vice President Kamala Harris told Fox News it “vigilantly monitors and protects against cyber threats, and we are not aware of any security breaches of our systems.”
The claim of Iranian involvement came shortly after Microsoft issued a report detailing foreign agents’ attempts to interfere in the U.S. campaign in 2024.
That report cited an instance of an Iranian military intelligence unit in June sending “a spear-phishing email to a high-ranking official of a presidential campaign from a compromised email account of a former senior advisor.
