DHS on Election Day: No malicious cyber-activity observed
As midterm election results are tallied, officials said Tuesday that they have not seen any malicious cyber-activity targeting election infrastructure. Department of Homeland Security officials held periodic press calls to issue updates Tuesday, addressing if they’ve had to deal with attempted interference. Shortly after 9 p.m. EST, officials were maintaining that they have seen “no reported cybersecurity events that would affect the ability to cast and count votes.” Officials said that some level of online probing or scanning of state systems was observed, but the activity did not go beyond what was anticipated and was not attributed to malicious actors. “What we continue to see is your run of the mill activity like scanning,” a DHS official said during a noon EST call with reporters. “It happens every day. In a lot cases it’s not even election infrastructure systems that are being scanned. It’s state systems.” Officials also said that they have not […]
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