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A spokesperson for Alabama’s state Office of Information Technology said it had “engaged with internal, external and federal resources in order to be as proactive as possible in addressing this issue.”
Eddie Perez, a board member at the OSET Institute, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization that advocates for election security and integrity, said attacks on state websites that host election night reporting wouldn’t affect actual U.S. election results.
“Election night reporting systems are not, strictly speaking, part of the voting system,” Perez said. “They’re not, strictly speaking, part of the election management system. They are visualization display tools.”
But such attacks could have damaging effects for the perception of election integrity, particularly after the recent rise in election conspiracy theories spread by former President Donald Trump and his allies who falsely claim he won the 2020 election, Perez said.
Federal officials have repeatedly claimed that they do not expect a cyberattack to affect the midterm elections. The FBI and CISA released a joint announcement Tuesday saying “any attempts by cyber actors to compromise election infrastructure are unlikely to result in large-scale disruptions or prevent voting.”
CISA Director Jen Easterly said in a call with reporters Thursday that “at this time we are not aware of any credible threat to the 2022 elections.” CISA has, however, recently begun updating its election misinformation “rumor control“ site for the midterms.
Because DDoS attacks are relatively easy to conduct and don’t do any lasting damage or give attackers access to hidden information, hackers and cybersecurity professionals generally regard them as unimpressive. But Killnet has recently started becoming more effective at knocking sites offline, said Stefan Soesanto, a senior cybersecurity researcher at the Center for Security Studies, a Swiss think tank.
“I would say that Killnet ought to be taken seriously to some degree. They can definitely conduct longer-lasting DDoS campaigns compared to other pro-Russian groups,” Soesanto told NBC News. “Currently, they are simply lacking the financial resources, fundamental desire and geopolitical buy-in to go bigger and heavier.”
Ye locked out of Twitter after backlash for antisemitic posts
A spokesperson for Alabama’s state Office of Information Technology said it had “engaged with internal, external and federal resources in order to be as proactive as possible in addressing this issue.”
Eddie Perez, a board member at the OSET Institute, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization that advocates for election security and integrity, said attacks on state websites that host election night reporting wouldn’t affect actual U.S. election results.
“Election night reporting systems are not, strictly speaking, part of the voting system,” Perez said. “They’re not, strictly speaking, part of the election management system. They are visualization display tools.”
But such attacks could have damaging effects for the perception of election integrity, particularly after the recent rise in election conspiracy theories spread by former President Donald Trump and his allies who falsely claim he won the 2020 election, Perez said.
Federal officials have repeatedly claimed that they do not expect a cyberattack to affect the midterm elections. The FBI and CISA released a joint announcement Tuesday saying “any attempts by cyber actors to compromise election infrastructure are unlikely to result in large-scale disruptions or prevent voting.”
CISA Director Jen Easterly said in a call with reporters Thursday that “at this time we are not aware of any credible threat to the 2022 elections.” CISA has, however, recently begun updating its election misinformation “rumor control“ site for the midterms.
Because DDoS attacks are relatively easy to conduct and don’t do any lasting damage or give attackers access to hidden information, hackers and cybersecurity professionals generally regard them as unimpressive. But Killnet has recently started becoming more effective at knocking sites offline, said Stefan Soesanto, a senior cybersecurity researcher at the Center for Security Studies, a Swiss think tank.
“I would say that Killnet ought to be taken seriously to some degree. They can definitely conduct longer-lasting DDoS campaigns compared to other pro-Russian groups,” Soesanto told NBC News. “Currently, they are simply lacking the financial resources, fundamental desire and geopolitical buy-in to go bigger and heavier.”
