Looks like Iran is taking a page out of Russia's cyber playbook.

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I'm Megan McCarty Carino. know.

U.S. intelligence officials are confident it was

U.S. intelligence officials are confident.

It was Iran that hacked

former President Donald Trump's election campaign. Early reports from

Microsoft pointed to the intelligence arm of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps or IRGC.

Using a spearfishing attack, hackers sent personalized emails to campaign staff containing

malware that allowed them to access private information and then leak it.

Officials say both Republican and Democratic campaigns were targeted in an effort to quote

Stoke discord and undermine confidence in our democratic institutions.

Deja vu, right?

Javet Ali, a former senior counter-terrorism official now at the University of Michigan,

says Russia created the blueprint for this

kind of attack and he's not surprised Iran picked it up. I'm actually not

surprised at all and if you have a take a deeper look at what Iran has attempted to do

against the United States using different cyber tools and methods, that timeline stretches back to the early 2010s.

This is just the latest evolution of what they've already been doing for that stretch of time.

In general, what does a foreign actor gain from a hack like this?

So this is different, I would argue, than some of what Iran has attempted in the past.

This looks almost like a replay of what Russia did to the United States in the mid-2010s

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