USA Today - Russia Never Stopped Trying to Sway Elections and Sow Mistrust. Best Thing to Do is Vote

Alethea Group VP of Analysis Cindy Otis shares her thoughts on recent FBI/DHS CISA election interference alerts.

Last week, 12 days before the presidential election, the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency alerted the public that Russia had targeted dozens of government and aviation networks, including some housing voter information, and had successfully stolen data from at least two servers.

This breach should certainly raise alarm bells, but it comes as no surprise to the disinformation community. Both the Mueller report and federal indictments detail how Russia has been systematically targeting voter information for years, including in 2016 when it attacked voter equipment manufacturers and hacked into county-level government computer systems in Florida and Illinois.

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