Security News > 2024 > August > Iran named as source of Trump campaign phish, leaks

US authorities have named Iran as the likely source of a recent attack on the campaign of the US Republican Party's presidential nominee, Donald Trump.

One of those efforts, the statement asserts, resulted in compromise of the Trump campaign and subsequent leaking of documents.

News of the leaks emerged after Microsoft published a report in which the software giant claimed Iranian attackers sent spear-phishing emails to "a high-ranking official of a presidential campaign" using a "Compromised email account of a former senior advisor."

The Washington Post reported a possible victim of the phishing mails: longtime Trump advisor and confidante Roger Stone, who told the newspaper his personal email accounts had been compromised.

The Post reported that Stone's accounts were used to email Trump campaign staff, and that links on those mails would have allowed access to victims' inboxes.

The agencies pledged to continue efforts to combat such attacks, and named Russia and Iran as the nations known to be trying to mess with the United States' November national elections.

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