Kevin Collier is a reporter covering cybersecurity, privacy and technology policy for NBC News.
The Iranian hacker group accused of targeting both U.S. parties’ presidential campaigns earlier this year also sent WhatsApp messages trying to trick members of the current Biden and former Trump administrations, Meta said Friday. The campaign began earlier this year and stopped before President Biden dropped out of the presidential race last month, a Meta spokesperson said.
Like other major state-affiliated cyberespionage groups, the IRGC hackers go after a wide variety of targets. NBC News reported Friday the state of Utah privately circulated a warning last month that the same group had tried to hack state data around oil, gas, and other geological research data. The same WhatsApp campaign also targeted users in Iran, Israel, Palestine, and the United Kingdom, Meta said.
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