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With campaign hacks, Iran takes a page from Russia’s playbook
Publisher |
Marketplace
Media Type |
audio
Categories Via RSS |
Business
News
Publication Date |
Aug 29, 2024
Episode Duration |
00:13:41

U.S. intelligence officials have confirmed that Iran was behind the recent cyberattack on former President Donald Trump’s election campaign. Using an approach called spear phishing, hackers sent personalized emails to campaign staff containing malware that allowed them to access private information and then leak it. Déjà vu, right? Javed Ali, a former senior counterterrorism official and a professor of practice at the University of Michigan, says Russia created the blueprint for this kind of attack. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino asked him for his reaction to Iran adopting the strategy.

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