Cybersecurity expert weighs in on Trump's claim his campaign was hacked by Iran
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🗓️ 12 August 2024
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| 0:00.0 | We're going to shift our focus now back to the new reports that U.S. elections |
| 0:04.7 | continue to be targeted by foreign actors, with Microsoft outlining what it says |
| 0:09.6 | was an Iranian cyber attack on an active presidential campaign. The company declined to specify which |
| 0:15.6 | campaign was affected, but on Saturday, former President Donald Trump said on Truth Social |
| 0:20.3 | that it was his posting that one of his campaign's websites was hacked by the Iranian government. |
| 0:26.0 | It comes after the Office of the Director of National Intelligence warned in late July |
| 0:31.0 | that it continues to observe foreign influence operations by Russia, China, and |
| 0:36.4 | Iran aimed at disrupting November's election and undermining American democracy. |
| 0:41.3 | To help put these new reports in context, we're joined now by Chris Krebs. |
| 0:44.8 | He's the Chief Intelligence and Public Policy Officer at Sentinel 1 and the former Director |
| 0:49.7 | of Cybersecurity and Infrastructure security agency. |
| 0:52.8 | Thanks for being with us. |
| 0:53.7 | Thanks for having me. |
| 0:54.4 | Good to be here. |
| 0:55.4 | So what stands out to you about this apparent cyber attack on the Trump campaign? |
| 0:59.2 | What would Iran stand to gain by hacking the campaign and distributing potentially sensitive |
| 1:04.9 | information. Well I think it's important to note that the hack piece and the |
| 1:09.5 | leak piece are separate. We may not have certainty whether they're actually related, |
| 1:14.8 | whether this Robert individual that anonymously emailed |
| 1:17.9 | Politico, Washington Post, others is sharing information that was stolen from the Trump campaign. |
| 1:24.7 | That's, I think, just something that we need to kind of set out. |
| 1:27.3 | But I think what's most significant, what's most remarkable about this activity, |
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