Collaborate Disseminate
The effort from four separate groups includes both hacking attempts and fake news campaigns, according to the company.
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State officials in Georgia have severed Coffee County’s access to statewide election systems while the breach is being addressed.
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Stefanie Lambert was involved in the effort to overturn the 2020 election and was arrested after appearing on behalf of another client.
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Security personnel charged with the challenging and high-stakes work of protecting election systems from digital threats might soon have another task on their to-do list: reporting any cyber incidents to the federal government. That’s if election technology, designated critical infrastructure in 2017, falls under proposed rules requiring critical infrastructure owners and operators to notify federal officials about cyber incidents, such as attempted hacks and ransomware attacks. The idea has surfaced again in a recent Stanford Internet Observatory paper authored by a former high ranking election security official who offered recommendations for election administration reform, ranging from increased funding to centralizing election IT infrastructure at the state level. The proposals are consistent with multiple bills under consideration in Congress, where momentum is building to require operators of critical infrastructure—pipeline owners, electrical grids, and other industries key to U.S. interests—to disclose yet-to-be defined cyber “incidents” to the Department of Homeland Security, FBI […]
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Less than a week before Election Day in a vital swing state, Wisconsin Republicans said on Thursday that hackers made off with $2.3 million devoted to reelecting President Donald Trump. The Republican Party of Wisconsin said it first detected the attack on Oct. 22, then notified the FBI the following day about doctored invoices in the names of its vendors. “Cybercriminals, using a sophisticated phishing attack, stole funds intended for the re-election of President Trump, altered invoices and committed wire fraud,” the party’s chairman, Andrew Hitt, said in a statement. “These criminals exhibited a level of familiarity with state party operations at the end of the campaign to commit this crime.” It’s common for hacking victims to claim they were the victims of “sophisticated” attacks, whether the attacks were rudimentary or not. Hitt and a party spokesperson did not immediately respond to questions seeking further details, including any evidence the […]
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Google TAG researchers warn that APTs are targeting campaign staffers for both Donald Trump and Joe Biden with phishing emails. Continue reading Trump, Biden Campaign Staffers Targeted By APT Phishing Emails
In episode 108 for February 17th 2020: The US charges four Chinese military hackers in the Equifax data breach, how Israel’s entire voter registry was exposed, and details on the encryption provider that was secretly owned by the CIA for the last… Continue reading Equifax Hacked by China, Israeli Voter Registry Exposed, How the CIA Owned Encryption
An election campaigning website operated by Likud―the ruling political party of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu―inadvertently exposed personal information of all 6.5 million eligible Israeli voters on the Internet, just three weeks before the… Continue reading App Used by Israel’s Ruling Party Leaked Personal Data of All 6.5 Million Voters
The 2020 U.S. presidential election has reached a significant cybersecurity milestone. For the first time, more than half of the candidates for president have domains that are protected from spoofing. Of the 15 candidates currently in the race (as list… Continue reading Presidential campaigns reach email security milestone
The FBI has announced that it will tell local election officials when hackers try to infiltrate their systems. Continue reading FBI to inform election officials about hacking attempts