Friday, 24 March, 2023

Iran hackers targeted US presidential campaign: Microsoft

<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Microsoft has claimed that a group of hackers linked to Iran unleashed cyber attacks on the US journalists, government officials and accounts associated with an unnamed US presidential campaign. A group called &lsquo;Phosphorus&rsquo; made more than 27,000 attempts to identify email accounts of targets that included the senior officials of the presidential campaign. Four accounts were compromised, revealed Tom Burt, Microsoft&rsquo;s Corporate Vice President on an online post.</span></span></span></p>