{"id":48762,"date":"2022-10-06T17:30:13","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T17:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/foreign-spies-hijacking-us-mid-terms-fbi-cisa-are-cool-as-cucumbers-about-it\/"},"modified":"2022-10-06T17:30:13","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T17:30:13","slug":"foreign-spies-hijacking-us-mid-terms-fbi-cisa-are-cool-as-cucumbers-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/foreign-spies-hijacking-us-mid-terms-fbi-cisa-are-cool-as-cucumbers-about-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign spies hijacking US mid-terms? FBI, CISA are cool as cucumbers about it"},"content":{"rendered":"

The FBI and the US government’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) claim any foreign interference in the 2022 US midterm elections is unlikely to disrupt or prevent voting, compromise ballot integrity, or manipulate votes at scale.<\/p>\n

Per a public service announcement<\/a> [PDF], the agencies have found zero evidence to suggest cyber nasties have yet created the forms of disruption mentioned above, nor has such an effort managed to affect the accuracy of voter registration information. So far.<\/p>\n

That doesn’t mean miscreants \u2013 foreign or domestic \u2013 haven’t tried (or won’t try<\/a>) to interfere, but they haven’t succeeded. Instead, the agencies said, such attempts were localized efforts, and were blocked or mitigated “with minimal or no disruption to election processes.”<\/p>\n

Also, we aren’t idiots<\/h3>\n

Despite popular narratives in some political circles that the 2020 US election was insecure and fraudulent, there hasn’t been any evidence<\/a> to back that, the FBI, CISA, and anyone with a brain said.<\/p>\n

The agencies also took the time to explain how US election systems are secured using “a variety of technological, physical, and procedural controls to mitigate the likelihood of malicious cyber activity” that could affect “election infrastructure systems or data that would alter votes or otherwise disrupt or prevent voting.”<\/p>\n