Iran tried to influ­ence elec­tion by send­ing stolen mate­r­i­al from Trump cam­paign to Biden’s camp, FBI says

In an effort to “sow dis­cord and shape the out­come of U.S. elec­tions”, Iran­ian cyber actors sent mes­sages dur­ing the sum­mer to peo­ple involved in Pres­i­dent Biden’s then re-elec­tion cam­paign con­tain­ing stolen mate­r­i­al from for­mer Pres­i­dent Trump’s cam­paign, U.S. agen­cies said.“Iranian mali­cious cyber actors in late June and ear­ly July sent unso­licit­ed emails to indi­vid­u­als then asso­ci­at­ed with Pres­i­dent Biden’s cam­paign that con­tained an excerpt tak­en from stolen, non-pub­lic mate­r­i­al from for­mer Pres­i­dent Trump’s cam­paign as text in the emails,” the FBI, Cyber­se­cu­ri­ty and …