Hackers ‘unlikely to disrupt or prevent voting’ during U.S. midterm elections, the FBI and CISA say.
"Given the extensive safeguards in place and distributed nature of election infrastructure," the twin agencies state,"the FBI and CISA continue to assess that attempts to manipulate votes at scale would be difficult to conduct undetected."
This isn't to say there aren't other methodologies that can be used to interfere with elections, especially ones as important to the political landscape of the United States as the 2022 midterms. It is conceded that threat actors, which come in many varieties from external state-sponsored groups to domestic political activists,"seek to spread or amplify false or exaggerated claims of cybersecurity compromises to election infrastructure.
Disinformation can and does influence voting, however, and that's a problem that is much harder to control. Something that both the FBI and CISA concede:"The biggest threat to the election process are influence operations that try to corrupt the integrity of the deliberation. Discussions or messages on social media and forums that deliver unfounded and unverified arguments and facts are typical means to changing a voter's opinion.
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