Under Nakasone, Cybercom has sent small teams to 22 countries to help hunt on their networks - “to identify malware, tradecraft, techniques that adversaries are using and then broadly publicize that,” he said. cyber operators were able to thwart them, he added. So by 2020, when Russian and Iranian actors attempted to interfere with the U.S. “take down infrastructure” and “take on adversaries” outside the country, Nakasone said. In 2020, Iranian hackers obtained confidential voter data and used it to send misleading emails, seeking to spread misinformation and influence the election.īeginning in 2018, the National Defense Authorization Act let the U.S.
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In 2016, Russian hackers scanned state voter registration systems looking for vulnerabilities and accessed the voter registration database in Illinois, although an investigation later determined no voter data was manipulated.
As the use of electronic systems has grown, they have proved an attractive target for those seeking to meddle in elections. Some of the non-voting systems present security challenges because they have internet connections. Locally, they have been trying to heighten protections for voting machines, vote tabulators, voter registration databases and electronic pollbooks, which are used to check in voters at polling locations. “We said if you are going to come and try to influence or interfere in our elections, we’re going to take you on, and we did,” he said.Įlection and national security officials have been increasingly focused on cybersecurity threats since the 2016 election. cybersecurity agency, who then worked with the municipality to respond to the intrusion. The team quickly alerted officials at the U.S. Hartman said his team identified the intrusion as part of what he termed a “hunt-forward” mission, which gathers intelligence on and surveils adversaries and criminals.
Cyber Command’s Cyber National Mission Force, told conference attendees Monday. “Our concern is always that some type of website defacement, some type of (denial of service) attack, something that took the website down or defaced the website say on the night of the election, could make it look like the vote had been tampered with when that’s absolutely not true,” Major Gen. If not expelled from the site, the hackers could have altered or otherwise disrupted the public-facing results page - though without affecting ballot-counting. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. “This was not a system used in the conduct of the election, but we are of course also concerned with systems that could weigh on the perception of a potential compromise,” said Eric Goldstein, who leads the cybersecurity division at the U.S. Officials did not identify the local government that was targeted.
The breach was revealed during a presentation this week at the RSA Conference in San Francisco, which is focused on cybersecurity. The system involved in the previously undisclosed breach was not for casting or counting ballots, but rather was used to report unofficial election results on a public website. municipal government to publish election results in 2020 but were discovered by cyber soldiers operating abroad and kicked out before an attack could be launched, according to U.S. Iranian hackers broke into to a system used by a U.S.
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