Several groups with ties to Iran have ramped up their online influence campaigns targeting the United States ahead of November’s election, according to a new report from Microsoft’s Threat Analysis Center.
One group, Mint Sandstorm, which is run by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps intelligence unit, sent a spear phishing email to a high-ranking official on a presidential campaign from a compromised email account of a former senior adviser. Microsoft did not identify which campaign it notified.
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