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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHackers tried to breach email accounts of election officials in 9 states, FBI says
https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/29/politics/hackers-target-election-officials/index.html
Unidentified hackers tried to breach the email accounts of election officials in nine states last October in an apparent "coordinated effort" to target election officials, the FBI said Tuesday while asking election officials to be on guard for hacking attempts as the midterms approach.
The phishing effort didn't appear to have a big impact; some election officials who received the malicious emails told CNN that they did not click on them. But it was a reminder of cyber threats that election officials have to contend with in an election season.
"The FBI judges cyber actors will likely continue or increase their targeting of US election officials with phishing campaigns in the lead-up to the 2022 US midterm elections," the FBI said in a public advisory.
After Russian hackers targeted IT systems across the country in the 2016 election, federal and state and local officials have bolstered defenses to election infrastructure. Russian and Iranian hackers were active during the 2020 election, which US officials declared the most secure election in history.
It's unclear who was responsible for the hacking effort ....................
Unidentified hackers tried to breach the email accounts of election officials in nine states last October in an apparent "coordinated effort" to target election officials, the FBI said Tuesday while asking election officials to be on guard for hacking attempts as the midterms approach.
The phishing effort didn't appear to have a big impact; some election officials who received the malicious emails told CNN that they did not click on them. But it was a reminder of cyber threats that election officials have to contend with in an election season.
"The FBI judges cyber actors will likely continue or increase their targeting of US election officials with phishing campaigns in the lead-up to the 2022 US midterm elections," the FBI said in a public advisory.
After Russian hackers targeted IT systems across the country in the 2016 election, federal and state and local officials have bolstered defenses to election infrastructure. Russian and Iranian hackers were active during the 2020 election, which US officials declared the most secure election in history.
It's unclear who was responsible for the hacking effort ....................
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Hackers tried to breach email accounts of election officials in 9 states, FBI says (Original Post)
L. Coyote
Mar 2022
OP
Hard to draw conclusions, just about every system and account is hit frequently
Amishman
Mar 2022
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gratuitous
(82,849 posts)1. "It's unclear who was responsible"
Tell you what, CNN, give us a list of the nine states and the political affiliations of the targeted elections officials, and let your audience draw its own conclusion.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)2. Why, that would require unbiased journalism!
I don't think that's CNN's bag.
WiVoter
(877 posts)7. Yes, Which States?
Bet there are a couple of obvious ones.
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uponit7771
(90,225 posts)4. More compromat
msfiddlestix
(7,264 posts)5. did they name the states?
Amishman
(5,540 posts)6. Hard to draw conclusions, just about every system and account is hit frequently
Connect a server to the internet and you'll get port scanned by Russia, China, India, and others on an hourly basis.
Random blind intrusion efforts are so common it's hard to infer much from this