{"id":869763,"date":"2024-10-24T09:07:30","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T03:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=869763"},"modified":"2024-10-24T09:12:34","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T03:42:34","slug":"iranian-hacker-group-focuses-on-us-election-websites-media-ahead-of-vote-microsoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/10\/24\/iranian-hacker-group-focuses-on-us-election-websites-media-ahead-of-vote-microsoft\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian hacker group focuses on US election websites, media, ahead of vote: Microsoft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Iranian hacking group is actively scouting U.S. election-related websites and American media outlets as election day nears, according to a Microsoft blog published on Wednesday. Researchers say the activity suggests \u201cpreparations for more direct influence operations.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The hackers \u2013 dubbed Cotton Sandstorm by Microsoft and linked to Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps \u2013 performed reconnaissance and limited probing of multiple \u201celection-related websites\u201d in several unnamed swing states, the report notes. In May, they also scanned an unidentified U.S. news outlet to understand its vulnerabilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Iranian hacking group is actively scouting U.S. election-related websites and American media outlets as election day nears, according to a Microsoft blog published on Wednesday. Researchers say the activity suggests \u201cpreparations for more direct influence operations.\u201d The hackers \u2013 dubbed Cotton Sandstorm by Microsoft and linked to Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps \u2013 performed reconnaissance and limited probing of multiple \u201celection-related websites\u201d in several unnamed swing states, the report notes. In May, they also scanned an unidentified U.S. news outlet to understand its vulnerabilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-869763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=869763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}