WASHINGTON (AP) — With less than three months before the U.S. election, Iran is intensifying its efforts to meddle in American politics, U.S. officials and...
Iran has long been described as a “chaos agent” when it comes to cyberattacks and disinformation campaigns and in recent months groups linked to the government in Tehran have covertly encouraged protests over, impersonated American activists and created networks of fake news websites and social media accounts primed to spread false and misleading information to audiences in the U.S.
That denial is disputed by U.S. intelligence officials and private cybersecurity firms who have linked Iran's government and military to several recent campaigns targeting the U.S., saying they reflect Iran's growing capabilities and its increasing willingness to use them. The final weeks before an election may be the most dangerous when it comes to foreign efforts to impact voting. That's when voters pay the most attention to politics and when false claims about candidates or voting can do the most damage.
“That can actually be more of a threat — the spectacle, the marketing this gives foreign adversaries — than the actual hack,” said Gavin Wilde, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and former National Security Council analyst who specializes in cyber threats., ultimately obtaining and releasing some of the campaign's most protected information in a hack-and-leak that upended the campaign in its final weeks.
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