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Iranian cyber operation targeting the Trump campaign is likely still underway, FBI official says

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Iran is using spear-phishing tactics to gain access to people with ties to both presidential campaigns and covert social media accounts to try to “denigrate” Trump.

The Trump campaign said last month it had been hacked and that Iranian actors had stolen and distributed internal documents.

Iran also tried but failed to hack the now-suspended re-election campaign of President Joe Biden .

China also is “continuing its longstanding efforts to build relationships with U.S. officials and entities at state and local levels, because it perceives Washington as largely opposed to China ,” the intelligence official said. Apart from Russia , Iran and China , other countries are testing the boundaries of election meddling, with some foreign governments lobbying political figures “to try to curry favor” in the event they are elected, the intelligence official said. The official declined to say which countries were lobbying. This article was originally published on NBCNews.com .