The company said Iran successfully breached the email account of a high-profile political consultant.

The company said Iran successfully breached the email account of a high-profile political consultant.

Google said in a research report Wednesday that it detected efforts by Iranian hackers to target both the Trump and the Biden-Harris campaigns in May and June, part of a larger email phishing operation that still persists.

Google’s announcement adds credence to the Trump campaign’s claim Saturday that it had been hacked as part of an Iranian campaign to interfere with the election.

In its report, Google’s Threat Analysis Group, which tracks government-backed cyberattacks, said it had disrupted a “small but steady” phishing operation from a hacking unit tied to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

    • BlameThePeacock@lemmy.caEnglish
      92·
      4 months ago

      Now?

      The whole Israel-Palestinian shit fest is literally just a proxy war for the US vs Iran.

      It has been for a few decades.

      • EvergreenGuru@lemmy.world
        47·
        4 months ago

        No. The Palestinians have a land dispute because they’ve been ethnically cleansed from their land, bit by bit, by Israel over the last 70 years. They receive arms because their allies believe Palestinians shouldn’t be subjected to apartheid and genocide.

        The most Iran gets from the situation is less refugees because the Palestinians will eventually succeed and get their land back. This would improve the stability of the region, as most countries in the Middle East agree that a country with a history of fighting wars to steal other peoples’ land (as Israel has done) is a threat to all other countries in the region.

        • BlameThePeacock@lemmy.caEnglish
          122·
          4 months ago

          Iran doesn’t give a shit about the Palestinians or their land, they are only supplying aid to weaken Israel.

          Less refugees? Iran doesn’t have ANY Palestinian refugees. https://www.unhcr.org/ir/refugees-in-iran/ Iran(Farsi) doesn’t even speak the same language that Palestinians (Arabic) use.

          If all the countries in the region think war is bad, why did most of them invade Israel literally the day after the British Protectorate left because they were not happy with the UN agreed upon borders? They only got mad when Israel turned the tables and absolutely kicked their asses.

          • EvergreenGuru@lemmy.world
            22·
            4 months ago

            The reason Israel keeps getting attacked is because it’s a colony that seeks to create a regional empire. The reason they didn’t lose is because Egypt halted their forces instead of pushing for victory.

            • BlameThePeacock@lemmy.caEnglish
              32·
              4 months ago

              The entire region WAS a regional empire immediately before Israel existed, the Ottoman Empire. They picked the wrong side in the world war and got broken up afterwards as a result.

              “Seek to create a regional empire” is also false, they gave back a ton of land that they conquered after the initial invasion because they didn’t actually want it.

              A decent Jewish presence has existed in that exact location for thousands of years, which kills your “it’s a colony” theory.

              Got any more bright ideas?

              • EvergreenGuru@lemmy.world
                22·
                4 months ago

                If a state created by foreign Jews stealing and re-settling stolen land does not meet the definition of colonialism, then colonies do not exist.

                The same can be said about the intentional bombing of civilians and wholesale slaughter of Palestinians during this war. If this is not genocide, then there is no such thing as genocide.

                If we believe your lies, then we live in a world where actions cannot be described and words mean nothing.

                • BlameThePeacock@lemmy.caEnglish
                  12·
                  4 months ago

                  Created by foreign jews? That entirely depends on the timeline you’re talking about. Jewish people had been living in that region for literally thousands of years, but there was a large migration of jews to the area when they got pushed out of Russia in the 1800s, and another large bunch that moved there during the second world war (for obvious reasons). They moved there BECAUSE there was already Jewish people there, and for historical reasons because the entire area (and more) is referenced as the Kingdom of Israel in the Torah, which was written a few thousand years before. Can you colonize a land that was yours to begin with but that got taken from you?

                  To add insult to injury, if that’s your definition, then Gaza is a colony too. Very few people over 40 were actually born there, a lot of them moved there from the surrounding countries (Primarily Egypt) when Egypt invaded and took control of that region.