Federal and state officials have confirmed that cyberattacks against state voting systems during the 2016 election were more widespread than previously disclosed to the public, but they said the heightened activity did not impact final vote tallies.The confirmations follow Tuesday’s Bloomberg report, citing three unnamed sources, that attempts to influence the 2016 presidential election were much greater than previously disclosed to the public. Still, officials pushed back on the revelation that 39 states were “hit” by Russian attackers.”Unusual or suspicious activity” was detected in several states during the months leading up to the November election, a DHS official who asked not to be identified told the E-Commerce Times. However, that activity was not necessarily considered an attack. Nor was it necessarily attributed to Russia.The majority of the activity involved scanning and attempting to steal data from voter registration databases. However, voter tallies were not impacted by the hackers.”Our past election demonstrated that cybercriminals are aggressively targeting our government’s critical infrastructure to gain access to sensitive information and cause widespread damage,” said Ryan Kalember, senior vice president of cyber security strategy at Proofpoint.Cybercriminals have been trying to take advantage of the United States’ “vulnerable, decentralized structure” to gain access to as… Read full this story
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