The U.S. voting public is the target of misinformation campaigns from within and from without. The Financial Times reports that one of the foreign sources of attempted interference in our election is Iran:
Iranian state-backed actors have sought to access senior US political figures’ email accounts and launched “covert news sites” aimed at American readers as part of an increase in disinformation and cyber attacks ahead of the country’s elections, Microsoft has said. A group run by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards in June sent a spear-phishing email, or personalised hacking attempt, to a “high-ranking official of a presidential campaign” from the compromised email account of a former senior adviser, the Microsoft Threat Analysis Center said on Friday.
Read more at Financial Times.
