According to Microsoft researchers, Iranian-linked hackers attempted to breach the account of a senior US official involved in a presidential campaign in June, citing Reuters. This cyberattack occurred just weeks after the account of a US state official was compromised. How cyberattack unfolded The report states that a group led by the intelligence unit of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) “sent a spear-phishing email to a high-ranking official of a presidential campaign,” while another IRGC-linked group “compromised a user account with minimal access permissions at a county-level g…