{"id":20873,"date":"2020-06-05T16:41:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T16:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/?p=2584445"},"modified":"2020-06-05T16:41:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T16:41:00","slug":"google-says-foreign-hackers-targeted-emails-of-trump-and-biden-campaign-staffers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/06\/05\/google-says-foreign-hackers-targeted-emails-of-trump-and-biden-campaign-staffers\/","title":{"rendered":"Google says foreign hackers targeted emails of Trump and Biden campaign staffers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Foreign hackers targeted the personal email accounts of staffers on the presidential campaigns of Democratic primary candidate Joe Biden and President Donald Trump, Reuters<\/em> reported. It appears that state-backed hackers from China tried to target staffers on the Biden campaign, while Iranian hackers targeted the email accounts of Trump campaign staff.<\/p>\n

Shane Huntley, the head of Google’s Threat Analysis Group, tweeted that the hackers had made phishing attempts on campaign staffers’ emails, but there had been “no sign of compromise.”<\/p>\n

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Recently TAG saw China APT group targeting Biden campaign staff & Iran APT targeting Trump campaign staff with phishing. No sign of compromise. We sent users our govt attack warning and we referred to fed law enforcement. https:\/\/<\/span>security.googleblog.com\/2018\/08\/a-reminder-about-government-backed.html <\/span>…<\/p>\n

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A reminder about government-backed phishing<\/h2>\n

Posted by Shane Huntley, Threat Analysis Group TLDR: Government-backed phishing has been in the news lately. If you receive a warning in G…<\/p>\n

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