Posted on 09/09/2022 6:54:10 AM PDT by FarCenter
Mandiant is "highly confident" that foreign cyberspies will target US election infrastructure, organizations, and individuals in the run-up to the November midterm elections.
Based on recent activity by various threat groups, as well as previous election targeting, the security firm expects nation-state backed gangs in Russia, China, and Iran will attempt to pull off cyberespionage against US government and election-related outfits.
"We have tracked activity from groups associated with Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, and other nations targeting organizations and individuals related to elections in the US and/or other nations with apparent goals ranging from information collection and establishing footholds or stealing data for later activity to one known case of a destructive attack against critical election infrastructure," the Mandiant team said in research published today.
Mandiant's threat hunters also say with "moderate confidence" that distributed denial-of-service (DDoS), ransomware, or other disruptive and/or destructive attacks will impact elections.
Additionally, as we've seen in previous elections, Russia, Iran and China will likely use information operations to "intimidate or influence" US voters, they noted. This is usually to put citizens off voting or turn them against each other, leading to unrest.
Hijacking voting machines … unlikely?
However, amid the likely cyberespionage, misinformation campaigns, and possible ransomware infections, there is a silver lining when it comes to the mechanics of voting itself.
"We believe notable compromises of actual voting devices or other activity impacting the integrity of votes is unlikely," the researchers report. But that doesn't mean that some miscreants aren't trying.
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Note the "other nations". Since the US is the sole superpower, leader of the free world, and tends to apply us law and policies extraterritorially, it is in the vital interest of every nation to inflence US elections.
And I’m confident the sun will rise in the east tomorrow morning.
Bonus question - which US political party is the rest of the world most likely to intercede on behalf of?
It’s ok as long as it’s in the Dems favor and no investigations are needed. If a Republican sneaks through then we will attack him as winning the election thanks to foreign adversaries like Russia.
You know, we could have a foolproof election system which “cyberspies” would be powerless to subvert.
But neither party likes that idea.
We were told the same thing in 2016.
I was monitoring the internet traffic and 90% of it was coming from UK, Netherlands, France and Germany.
Also they seemed to be targeting VOIP phone lines.
Count all votes by hand. Problem solved
All of this could be prevented by paper ballots, same day voting, voter ID, but they adamantly refuse to do so.... I wonder why that is?
Must set the table early for the “X Candidate is illegitimate! They were elected as the result of HACKING!” narrative.
Mandiant’s Deep State/intel.
Maybe their safety-valve claim getting set up?
“”We believe notable compromises of actual voting devices or other activity impacting the integrity of votes is unlikely,” the researchers report. “”
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No, they leave that to the Democrat vote counters and the mail-in voting ballot harvesters and the the adjudication of flagged Republican ballots (deliberately put in the (ambiguous mark category which sends them for adjudication where the Democrat resolves the ambiguity to be their preferred candidate) to favor Democrats or RINOs.
I am much more worried about Mark Zuckerberg
The easy way to get rid of foreign election fraud is to manage the elections on election day only, by hand in plain sight of all. Many countries do this. There is no reason it can’t be done on every county.
I believe there was an article posted on freerepublic about it.
Setting the narrative in case they lose
” will likely use information operations to “intimidate or influence” US voters, they noted. This is usually to put citizens off voting or turn them against each other”
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No, that’s the media’s job.
Highly confident foreign cyber spies and highly competent fifth column operators within the USA!They stole the 2020 election. The establishment covered for them--and/or was complicit. Why would they not be confident that they can steal the 2022 election--and any other election?
And note tagline!
And by the way, How do you(generic) think the AP and Edison data feeds occur? certainly not thru email.
Alphabet owns them. Yes, that's Google. More high tech democrat party interference...
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