Microsoft says it thwarted attempts to hack into both presidential campaigns

Microsoft says it thwarted attempts to hack into both presidential campaigns

Microsoft says it thwarted attempts to hack both presidential campaigns from Russia, China and Iran

  • Microsoft said on Thursday that it stopped hacking from China, Russia and Iran
  • Attackers have been targeting campaigns of both Biden and Trump
  • Company says Russia is attempting to sow chaos and China is targeting Biden
  • Iran's hackers have targeted people in Trump's campaign, Microsoft says
  • Microsoft said it was able to detect and thwart most of the attacks 
  • Microsoft has said it thwarted recent cyberattacks from China, Russia and Iran targeting both Republican and Democratic presidential campaigns, as technology giants scrambled to protect election security less than two months ahead of the US vote.

    Microsoft said on Thursday that attackers have been targeting staff from the campaigns of President Donald Trump and his Democratic rival, microsoft thwarted attempts presidential campaigns