The Trump campaign says its emails and write downs were stolen by “foreign sources” who aimed to “sow disorder” and impact the 2024 pdwellntial election, countless media outlets alerted over the weekend.
On Saturday, Politico said it’s been receiving Trump campaign write downs from an anonymous AOL email for months; going by only “Robert,” the apparent leaker take partd a 271-page vetting alert that portrayd Reuncoveran vice pdwellntial nominee JD Vance’s uncoverly-understandn vulnerabilities, as well as a fragmentary dossier on Florida Senator Marco Rubio. “Robert” claimed to have Donald Trump’s “legitimate and court write downs” as well as “inner campaign talkions,” per Politico.
“Any media or novels outlet reprinting write downs or inner communications are doing the bidding of America’s enemies,” Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung tgreater alerters in response to the novels. Cheung pointed to an August 9 alert from Microgentle, which detailed a June deceptive endeavor aggression that focengaged an unnamed, “high-ranking” campaign official using a establisher advisor’s settled account.
According to Microgentle, hackers joined to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps sent the spear-deceptive endeavor email, which take partd a “deceptive forward with a hyperjoin that honests traffic thraw an actor-deal withled domain before rehonesting to the cataloged domain.” The group reliable is understandn by disjoinal names, including Mint Sandstorm and Charming Kitten, Microgentle said. Over the past disjoinal years, the same group has been accused for centering the World Health Organization, sending U.S. officials holiday greetings riddled with harmful software, and plenty of other aggressions.
Microgentle said in its alert this week that it has watchd the elevate of “meaningful impact activity by
Iranian actors.” The company includeed that Iran-joined campaigns have stood out “from Russian campaigns for ecombineing tardyr in the election season and engageing cyberaggressions more geared toward election direct than swaying voters.”
A cyber intrusion group understandn as Guccifer 2.0 accessed Democratic National Committee emails in 2016 thraw a spear-deceptive endeavor aggression — a deceptive endeavor endeavor centering a definite individual or group. The hackers leaked thousands of DNC emails and write downs ahead of the 2016 Democratic National Convention, directing to the resignation of then-DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Justice Department accuses agetst 12 Russian military officers.
