Iranian hackers who breached Trump campaign targeted Utah oil data earlier this year
The Iranian hacker group accused of targeting both presidential campaigns, and successfully breaching Trump’s, tried to hack multiple Utah government sites.
The Iranian hacker group accused of targeting both presidential campaigns, and successfully breaching Donald Trump’s, also tried to hack multiple Utah government sites, according to a previously nonpublic state law enforcement notice obtained by NBC News.
The group tried to breach “Utah-based assets including a county in Utah, geological archive data, oil and gas, and other geographical resources related to Utah,” said the notice from the Utah Department of Public Safety Statewide Information and Analysis Center.
The U.S. and allied governments, as well as the Western cybersecurity industry, have long said the hacker group is composed of cyberespionage specialists working for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
The Utah department issued the notice July 30, but it has not been publicly disclosed until now. It said the hacking group continued a series of unsuccessful efforts from March 2023 to March 2024.
The Utah department did not disclose precisely which organizations were targeted.
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