Hack-and-leak op targets Trump; a technical deep dive with John Hammond on the CrowdStrike outage

With Election Day rapidly approaching in the United States, the Trump campaign claims that the first major hack-and-leak operation has arrived. After a handful of U.S. media outlets received leaked material on vice presidential candidate JD Vance, the Trump campaign said it had been the victim of an Iranian hacking operation. On this episode of Safe Mode, CyberScoop senior reporter Tim Starks sits down with host Elias Groll to discuss what we know about the operation and its significance. Also on this episode, John Hammond of Huntress provides a technical deep dive on how an errant CrowdStrike software update managed to break large parts of the internet.

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We received internal Trump documents from ‘Robert.’ Then the campaign confirmed it was hacked. | POLITICO 

Trump campaign says emails were hacked, jumpstarting ‘a wild ride’ to election day | CyberScoop

External Technical Root Cause Analysis — Channel File 291 | CrowdStrike