State-sponsored threat groups targeted email accounts of Trump and Biden campaign staff: Google

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Biden campaign members says they are prepared for such attacks and were expecting them

State-backed hackers from China have been targeting the email accounts of campaign staffs of the US presidential candidate Joe Biden in hopes of stealing confidential information relating to the pr...

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