The US elections are of great interest abroad, as demonstrated by Russian meddling in years past and reports of Iran trying it's hand at hacking this time around. Another dip into the Daily Beast reporting to learn that turnabout's fair play - apparently Roger Stone, a self-proclaimed master of dirty tricks on behalf of Trump was himself hacked.

The email account of longtime Donald Trump ally Roger Stone was breached as part of suspected hacking attempts from Iran targeting Trump’s campaign, according to reports.

The self-proclaimed GOP “agent provocateur”—whose dirty tricks can be traced back to the Nixon campaign—was duped by an espionage unit.

The hackers then used Stone’s account in an effort to get into another account belonging to a senior Trump campaign official, a source told CNN. That attempt was part of wider efforts to breach campaign networks which are now being investigated by the FBI.

The irony here is that

Stone was convicted of seven felony charges in November 2019, including for lying about his attempts to obtain information from WikiLeaks about Hillary Clinton’s emails stolen by Russian hackers and released on the eve of the 2016 election. Trump then pardoned Stone just before leaving the White House in 2020.

Read the rest at the link.

I'm more concerned about the Twitterverse than Iran at this point. Elon Musk is bonkers and the bots he allows on X are insidious. Another Trump event, this time an "interview" with Musk is setting up the site to explode with toxic Trump lies and overseas bots. And money for Trump.