Chinese and Iranian hackers targeted Biden and Trump campaigns, Google security official says

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The announcement is the latest indication of the digital spying routinely aimed at top politicians

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Iranian attempts to break into Trump campaign officials’ emails have been documented before. Last year, Microsoft Corp announced that a group often nicknamed Charming Kitten had tried to break into e-mail accounts belonging to an unnamed U.S. presidential campaign, which sources identified as Trump’s.

“We sent the targeted users our standard government-backed attack warning and we referred this information to federal law enforcement,” a Google representative said. Charming Kitten, the group identified by Google as being responsible for the targeting of the Trump campaign, has also recently hit the headlines over other exploits, including the targeting of the pharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences Inc .

 

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