Informed sources told Reuters that an infiltration group apparently linked to the Iranian government, tried to penetrate the campaign for re-election of US President Donald Trump, but it did not work, and Microsoft said that hackers tried to penetrate the campaign of a candidate in the US presidential elections did not name it, and linked the infiltrators to Iran.

Microsoft said Friday in a blog that a group called "Phosphorus" over the past thirty days in the months of August and September last, more than 2700 attempts to disclose e-mail accounts to specific customers, and then attacked 241 of those accounts, and penetrated four Of which.

The company said cyberattacks hit US journalists, US government officials and accounts linked to the campaign of a candidate for the US presidential election in November 2020.

Target
Microsoft did not disclose the targeted campaign, but Reuters quoted sources as the campaign of Trump.

"We have no indication that any of the infrastructure components of our campaign are being targeted," said Tim Morto, Trump's communications director.

Nineteen Democratic candidates are seeking to win their presidential nomination against Republican President Donald Trump, who is running for a ticket for his party's three.

Microsoft said it spotted a major online activity for the Phosphorus group, which also targeted current and former US government officials, as well as journalists covering world politics and prominent Iranian figures living outside Iran.

Microsoft said a group called Phosphorus has been active in the past two months to infiltrate electronic accounts in the United States (Reuters)

Microsoft has been monitoring phosphorus activity since 2013 and said in March it had obtained a court order to control the 99 Web sites used by the group to carry out attacks.

Of concern
Breakthroughs to intervene in the election have become a concern for governments, especially since US intelligence concluded that Russia had conducted a breakthrough and propaganda operation aimed at influencing the 2016 presidential election to help Trump win; Moscow denies any interference.

Major US technology companies - such as Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Twitter - held a meeting last month with US intelligence agencies to discuss cybersecurity strategy in preparation for next year's elections.