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Google caught Iranian and Chinese state hackers targeting the Trump and Biden campaigns

The head of Google's Threat Analysis Group tweeted Thursday it had spotted attempts by Iranian and Chinese state-back hacking groups to attack the Trump and Biden campaigns.

The Iranian group known as APT35 had targeted the Trump campaign, while the Chinese group known as APT31 targeted Biden staffers. Google said it alerted the affected users and federal law enforcement, and there was no evidence the attackers had been successful.Google announced on Thursday it had caught state-backed hackers from China and Iran trying to target the presidential campaigns of President Donald Trump and Joe Biden.

Shane Huntley, head of Google's Threat Analysis Group , announced the discovery in a post on Twitter. "Recently TAG saw China APT group targeting Biden campaign staff & Iran APT targeting Trump campaign staff with phishing. No sign of compromise," Huntley said. He added Google had warned the campaign and referred its findings to federal law enforcement.

 

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His city is on fire and he leaves for this? Wow

Why wouldn’t they? You do the same worldwide since WW1... in the name of new world order democracy (autocracy) ... I mean I prefer you guys, if you just weren’t such loudmouth hypocrites ... you would win the game... but you never have enough greedy

Every presidential campaign has been targeted by Iran, China, Russia and more for the last 20+ years.

Lol, long live Comrade Trump, we all support you. 'Recently TAG saw China APT group targeting Biden campaign staff & Iran APT targeting Trump campaign staff with phishing. '

COLLUSION!!!! Where you at RepAdamSchiff?

Biden is senile. Never gonna run anything.

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