The Iranian cyber snoops who stole files from the Trump campaign, with the intention of leaking those documents, tried to slip the data to the Biden camp — but were apparently ignored, according to Uncle Sam.
In the ongoing saga of that IT compromise, in which Tehran swiped info belonging to the campaign of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, the Feds disclosed that the data thieves "sent unsolicited emails to individuals then associated with President Biden's campaign."
This was in late June and early July, before Biden dropped out of the race and the Democratic Party nominated VP Kamala Harris to be its presidential candidate.
Iran sent emails to Team Biden that "contained an excerpt taken from stolen, non-public material from former President Trump's campaign as text," according to a joint advisory from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the FBI, and CISA.
However, the American agencies noted: "There is currently no information indicating those recipients replied."
In early August, Microsoft published a report claiming Iranian miscreants sent spear-phishing emails to "a high-ranking official of a presidential campaign" using a "compromised email account of a former senior advisor."
Trump advisor and confidant Roger Stone was reportedly one of the targets, and told the Washington Post his personal email accounts had been compromised.
Later in August, the Feds said Tehran pilfered the Trump campaign's data.
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The ultimate goal of the Iranian operation was "to stoke discord and undermine confidence in our electoral process," we're told. Plus, in the lead up to the November presidential election, Russia and China are also trying to "exacerbate divisions in US society for their own benefit, and see election periods as moments of vulnerability," the Feds noted.
The Trump campaign leaks advisory follows a write-up by Microsoft, published earlier this week, saying that the Kremlin's troll farms are working overtime to ensure Trump defeats Harris in November.
To this end, two Moscow-aligned groups began pumping out phony video content "designed to discredit Harris and stoke controversy around her campaign," according to Redmond's threat intelligence team. ®