OAN Staff Blake Wolf
5:58 PM – Wednesday, December 4, 2024
Kash Patel, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to head the FBI, was reportedly the target of an Iranian cyberattack launched on Tuesday.
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The media's first report semaphoresThe appointment follows Patel's nomination to head the FBI during the second Trump administration.
“Kash Patel was a key figure in the first Trump administration's efforts against the terrorist Iranian regime, and as FBI director, President Trump's policy to protect the United States from adversaries,'' Alex Pfeiffer, President Trump's transition press secretary, said in a statement. will be carried out.”
It was not immediately clear whether the intended attack yielded any information, and Pfeiffer declined to provide further details.
The attack also comes after the Trump campaign announced in August that it had obtained internal documents after being hacked by a foreign organization. The FBI later discovered that the Trump campaign had actually been hacked by Iranians. Hackers distributed Trump campaign emails to Democratic Party officials and employees in late June and early July. A U.S. government statement said the email “contained excerpts from nonpublic materials stolen from former President Trump's campaign as text within the email.”
In July, representatives from the FBI, Department of Homeland Security, and Office of the Director of National Intelligence also reiterated that the Iranian government had launched its own deliberate campaign aimed at weakening President Trump's candidacy.
“These documents were illegally obtained from foreign sources hostile to the United States and are designed to interfere with the 2024 election and disrupt the entire Democratic process,” another member of the Trump campaign said at the time. said Stephen Chan, a spokesperson.
Iran has consistently denied responsibility for the August attack. However, the FBI has already indicted three members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRCG). Iranian nationals Masoud Jalili, Seyed Ali Aghamili, and Yasser Baraghi were all named as co-conspirators in the indictment.
“This activity is part of Iran's ongoing efforts to sow discord, undermine confidence in the U.S. election process, and illegally obtain information about current and former U.S. officials, which is currently ongoing. “The death of former Revolutionary Guards Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani could be used to further malign activities of the Revolutionary Guards, including retaliatory activities during the Ta.
Current FBI Director Christopher Wray said, “Today's charges represent the culmination of a thorough and lengthy FBI investigation that resulted in the indictment of three Iranian individuals for their role in a wide-ranging hacking campaign sponsored by the Iranian government. “
“The conduct revealed in the indictment is just the latest example of Iran's brazen conduct. So today, the FBI would like to send a message to the Iranian government – you and your hackers hide behind your keyboard. “I can't,” Ray continued.
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