{"id":15471,"date":"2024-08-09T14:39:03","date_gmt":"2024-08-09T12:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/09\/iran-hackers-target-us-officials-to-influence-election-microsoft-says\/"},"modified":"2024-08-09T14:39:03","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T12:39:03","slug":"iran-hackers-target-us-officials-to-influence-election-microsoft-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/09\/iran-hackers-target-us-officials-to-influence-election-microsoft-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran hackers target US officials to influence election, Microsoft says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hackers tried breaking into account of \u2018high-ranking official\u2019 on US presidential campaign, researchers say<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft researchers said on Friday that Iran government-tied hackers tried breaking into the account of a \u201chigh-ranking official\u201d on the US presidential campaign in June, weeks after breaching the account of a county-level US official.<\/p>\n<p>The breaches were part of Iranian groups\u2019 increasing attempts to influence the US <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/us-elections-2024\">presidential election<\/a> in November, the researchers said in a report that did not provide any further detail on the apparent official in question.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/article\/2024\/aug\/09\/microsoft-reports-iran-hackers-presidential-campaign-election\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/d95928e9f50fd04fa2c00f6b7b7ae080b1146273\/0_192_5500_3301\/master\/5500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=792d19e0269d2d77b0d03b8246725132\" title=\"Iran hackers target US officials to influence election, Microsoft says\" \/>Hackers tried breaking into account of \u2018high-ranking official\u2019 on US presidential campaign, researchers say<br \/>\nMicrosoft researchers said on Friday that Iran government-tied hackers tried breaking into the account of a \u201chigh-ranking official\u201d on the US presidential campaign in June, weeks after breaching the account of a county-level US official.<br \/>\nThe breaches were part of Iranian groups\u2019 increasing attempts to influence the US presidential election in November, the researchers said in a report that did not provide any further detail on the apparent official in question. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hackers tried breaking into account of \u2018high-ranking official\u2019 on US presidential campaign, researchers say Microsoft researchers said on Friday that Iran government-tied hackers tried breaking into the account of a \u201chigh-ranking official\u201d on the US presidential campaign in June, weeks after breaching the account of a county-level US official. The breaches were part of Iranian &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/09\/iran-hackers-target-us-officials-to-influence-election-microsoft-says\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Iran hackers target US officials to influence election, Microsoft says<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15471"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}