Google says it disrupted Iranian attempts to hack Trump and Biden campaigns

Google’s Threat Analysis Group said Wednesday it stopped Iran-sponsored efforts to hack into the campaigns of former President Trump and President Biden.
The new revelation of Tehran’s attempted hacks comes amid word of a larger cyber onslaught from Iran aiming to denigrate Mr. Trump, the Republican candidate for president.

TAG, a Google unit focused on combating government-backed hackers, said it detected and disrupted a “small but steady cadence” of “phishing” attempts from the Iranian APT42 hacking group to gain access to the email accounts of senior campaign officials on both sides.

“In May and June, APT42 targets included the personal email accounts of roughly a dozen individuals affiliated with President Biden and with former President Trump, including current and former officials in th …