Washington: Computer pirates linked to Iran have threatened to reveal more emails stolen from the circle of President Donald Trump, after distributing a lot before the media before the 2024 elections in the United States.
In in line chats with Reuters On Sunday and Monday, the computer pirates, who use the pseudonym “Robert”, said they had about 100 gigabytes of emails taken from accounts belonging to the chief of personnel of the White House, Susie Wiles, Trump’s lawyer, Lindsey Halligan, Trump Roger Stone advisor and the adult film actress, the Trump traffic critic Daniels
Robert mentioned that they could sell the data, but did not offer clear details about his plans. The group did not reveal the content of the emails.
The United States Attorney General PAM Bondi described the piracy “an inconceivable cyber attack.”
The White House and the FBI declared that the director of the FBI, Kash Patel, said: “Any person associated with any type of national security violation will be fully investigated and processed to the greater extent of the law.”
Haligan, Stone, a representative of Daniels, and the American cyber agency CISA did not respond to comments requests. Iran’s mission before the United Nations did not respond either. Tehran has previously denied participation in cyberspage.
The Robert Pirate Group arose in the last months of the 2024 presidential campaign, claiming to have accessed email accounts of several Trump allies, including Wiles.
Later they distributed some of the emails to journalists.
Reuters Previously, part of the leaked content, including an email that appears to show a financial agreement between Trump and lawyers for former presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy JR, now Trump’s Secretary of Health.
Other leaks included Trump’s internal messages about Republican candidates and details of legal liquidation conversations with Daniels.
Although the leaks received some media attention last year, they did not significantly affect the result of the presidential race, which Trump won.
In September 2024, the United States Department of Justice claimed in an accusation that Iran’s revolutionary guards were behind Robert’s piracy operation. The computer pirates declined to comment on the accusation.
After Trump’s victory, Robert told him Reuters No more leaks were planned. In May, the computer pirates said: “I am retired, man.” However, they resumed the activity after the 12 -day conflict of this month between Israel and Iran, which ended with US attacks at Iran’s nuclear sites.
In fresh messages this week, Robert said they were preparing to sell the emails stolen and that they were looking for Reuters to “transmit this matter.”
Frederick Kagan, a scholar of the American Enterprise Institute and Iranian cyber activity expert, said that Iran’s intelligence services can now be trying to retaliate without risking the military escalation more.
“A default explanation is that everyone has been ordered to use all the asymmetric tools they have, without causing Israeli or American military or military actions,” he said. “It is not likely to drip much more emails.”
Despite the concerns that Iran could launch serious cyber attacks, their computer pirates remained quite quiet during the recent conflict. However, American cybercuts warned on Monday that Tehran could still go to US companies and the key infrastructure.
