United States Indicts Two Iranian Hackers For Election Interference

On Nov. 18, the Department of Justice indicted two Iranian nationals for allegedly interfering in the 2020 U.S. presidential election. The defendants, Seyyed Mohammad Hosein Musa Kazemi and Sajjad Kashian, are accused of participating “in a coordinated and multi-faceted, cyber-enabled campaign to intimidate and influence American voters.” According to the indictment, as part of the campaign, the two sent threatening emails to Democratic voters purportedly from the Proud Boys, a far-right extremist group that supported former President Trump during the election. Kazemi and Kashian also allegedly attempted to compromise 11 state voter registration and information websites and obtained access to the computer network of an unnamed American media company that provides content management for “dozens of newspapers and other publications.”

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