STEAL PLOT? Federal agencies warn cyberattacks could affect election infrastructure but claim they won’t compromise voting integrity
The FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have issued a dire warning about the potential for election attacks this year, and while some of its information may be valuable, their insistence that such attacks cannot affect the integrity of voting is raising a few eyebrows.
In a joint statement, the agencies noted that there is a very real possibility we may see a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack meant to disrupt the elections. They acknowledge that there is a strong desire by some entities to either interfere directly with the election or cause doubts and undermine confidence in the American election process.
They said the goal of their statement is to draw awareness to the types of attacks we may see as…
