US politicians and Israeli officials among the top targets for the IRGC’s cyber unit
Google has joined Microsoft in publishing intel on Iranian cyber influence activity following a recent uptick in attacks that led to data being leaked from the Trump re-election campaign.in May. Active attacks that are continuing to be blocked include several targeting the teams of President Joe Biden, vice-president and current Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris, and Donald Trump, who is challenging for a second stint in the Oval Office.
PDFs might also be sent. Google didn't say exactly what these are, but they're likely benign and used only to build trust before moving the conversation to a messaging platform such as "Once APT42 gains access to an account, they often add additional mechanisms of access including changing recovery email addresses and making use of features that allow applications that do not support multi-factor authentication like application-specific passwords in Gmail and third-party app passwords in Yahoo. Google's Advanced Protection Program revokes and disables these application-specific passwords in Gmail, protecting users from this tactic.
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