The U.S. Justice Department has indicted three Iranians for supporting the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in connection with a phishing plot to hack past president Donald Trump’s plan.
Masoud Jalili, Seyyed Ali Aghamiri, and Yasar Balaghi are the three suspects in the Egyptian hackers plot against the previous president, according to a federal indictment released by Justice Department officials on Friday.
According to the indictment, the three Iranian thieves “engaged in a broad hackers promotion that used spearphishing and social engineering techniques to target and compromise the addresses of current and former U.S. government officials, journalists, nonprofit organizations, and individuals associated with U.S. political campaigns” and “reported to be involved in a broad-ranging hackers battle.”
The three Iranian hackers are already accused of conspiring to steal information from a protected computer, defrauding and obtaining a item of value, committing entry system fraud, wire fraud while erroneously registering regions, and aggravated identity theft.
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The Office of the Director of National Intelligence ( ODNI), the Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ), and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency ( CISA ) jointly confirmed that Iranian hackers had attempted to transfer the information to individuals connected to President Joe Biden’s campaign earlier this month.
According to the indictment,” Such activity is part of Iran’s continuing efforts to stoke discord, erode confidence in the U.S. electoral process, and unlawfully obtain information relating to current and former U.S. officials that could be used to advance the IRGC’s malign activities, including ongoing efforts to avenge the death of Qasem Soleimani.”
The federal government has acknowledged that Iran has repeatedly targeted the former president’s campaign as a result of Trump’s removal of Qasem Soleimani, who was the former leader of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Qods Force.
After receiving a briefing on “real and specific threats from Iran to assassinate him,” Trump announced last week that there were “big threats” against his life by saying that Iran had made “big threats” against his life.
