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Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks during a press conference at his Mar-a-Lago estate on August 08, 2024, in Palm Beach, Florida. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Trump campaign says emails were hacked, jumpstarting ‘a wild ride’ to election day

Former NSA cyber head Rob Joyce says the reported Iranian hack-and-leak op shows the country “in a cycle again” ahead of November’s presidential election.

Aug 11, 2024 By AJ Vicens

Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi speaks during a meeting with Cuba’s president Miguel Diaz Canel (out of frame) at the Revolution Palace in Havana, on June 15, 2023. (Photo by YAMIL LAGE / AFP)

The potent cyber adversary threatening to further inflame Iranian politics

A group calling itself GhyamSarnegouni has entered the Iranian cyber fray with a damaging hack-and-leak operation against the government.

Jun 26, 2023 By AJ Vicens

Demonstrators hold placards with the faces of Iranian women Nika Shahkarami and Masha Amini and the words “Woman Life Freedom” written during a rally in support of Iranian protests, in Paris on October 9, 2022, following the death of Iranian woman Mahsa Amini in Iran. (Photo by JULIEN DE ROSA/AFP via Getty Images)

U.S. sanctions two Iranian cyber operatives over crackdowns on Mahsa Amini protests

The pair started a cyber training academy that supports Iranian intelligence in the brutal response to protests, the U.S. government said.

Oct 27, 2022 By AJ Vicens