The Trump administration and Michigan officials claim that the Russians hacked wolverine state voter databases that were posted on Russian media and expanded on social media through U.S. newscasts and other left-wing accounts very often.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, a branch of the Department of Homeland Security, and the FBI published a joint Tuesday that they “have not noticed any cyberattacks this year on the voter registration databases” and, separately, on the Michigan Department of State. “Our formula has not been hacked.”
With about two months to go until Election Day, U.S. officials have also suggested others be more careful when sharing unverified stories.
“CISA and the FBI have not witnessed any cyberattacks this year on voter registration knowledge bases or any formula involving voting.We work strongly with our federal, state and local election partners to protect our voting processes.We and our partners constantly monitor the dangers associated with all voting strategies in our elections.And we provide this data to state and local election officials who are guilty of our voting formulas,” CISA and the FBI said.”Data on U.S. elections will appear in headlines, especially if presented as foreign interference.Unverified early claims deserve to be seen with a good dose of skepticism.More importantly, we encourage the electorate to resort to reliable data resources, in this case, state election officials who have properly pointed out that many voter registration knowledge is publicly to have or simply to buy.»
Kommersant, a Russian newspaper, published the low-source article Tuesday, saying the hackers “published knowledge bases for 7.6 million Michigan voters, as well as millions of citizens from other U.S. states.”Usa.” On a “Russian hacker site.” The article quotes “experts.””those” recognize that the publication of knowledge bases may be only a provocation before the next U.S. presidential election.”No evidence was provided. Kommersant stated, “The hackers themselves also report on the low coverage of the non-public knowledge of American voters” and that “one of the knowledge base providers said it would be sufficient to locate one of the many vulnerabilities of the sites used to vote and then useArray..injecting malicious code into the knowledge base.”
The Michigan elections joined DHS and the FBI in challenging the report.
“Public voter data in Michigan is available to everyone through a FOIA application,” the Michigan Secretary of State’s office said.”Our formula has not been hacked. We inspire every Michigan electorate to distrust attempts to “hack ” their minds, however, by asking for the data resources and announcements they find and looking for reliable resources, adding their local election secretary and our office.»
The disputed Russian story went viral on Tuesday thanks to a giant component of a tweet from GQ correspondent Julia Ioffe, accompanied by 3 red mermaid emojis howling, to her 245,000 followers, and eventually got more than 11,800 retweets.of Michigan’s voter lists – adding non-public data from 7.6 million Michigan electorates – on a Russian hacker platform “and” this also includes data about the electorate in other undecided states.”The Michigan secretary of state responded directly to her to defy the claims of the story.
The story bounced off Twitter, and left-wing commentators used hitale to criticize the Trump administration, pointing to the resolution of Director of National Intelligence, John Ratcliffe, to move from in-person election security briefings to written due to leaking and politicization considerations.Amy Siskind, from the online Weekly List, told her 480,000 followers: “I guess that’s what Ratcliffe is trying to hide from Congress and the American people!”Fred Wellman, senior adviser to The Lincoln Project, joked: “This turns out to be anything our ODN deserves to tell Congress…Oh, wait. They don’t do that anymore.”
Dmitri Alperovitch, founder of cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike, tweeted (later deleted): “It looks like Michigan, Connecticut, Arkansas, Florida and North Carolina may have had their voter registration databases hacked as recently as last year.”It was temporarily reversed by saying, “I have shown that for at least some of the published databases, published fields are public data trusted by those statesArrays …Maybe it’s not a trick after all.”
Experts also criticized the story. Alex Stamos, a researcher at Stanford’s Internet Observatory, said: “This data is public and can come from many clients of election data brokers” and “dark Internet forums, especially those in Russian, are full of loose information and paid content, knowledge dumps like this without quick use.Dustin Volz, a cyber reporter at the Wall Street Journal, noted: “This knowledge is public and there is no evidence of real piracy.The “Russian” hacker platform is a bit for sharing knowledge.We all want to do a bigger task, especially on social media, of not jumping over unverified and high-profile claims about piracy/electoral interference”.
Last week, a senior DHS official told reporters that the branch had deployed sensors to state networks across all states and that “we have not noticed an increase in activity targeting the electoral infrastructure in recent months.”He said “we didn’t see anything like what we saw with Illinois in 2016 at the time,” when the Russians hacked into the Illinois State Board of Elections online page and compromised the sensitive main points of at least 76,000 voters.
“We know that the focus on electoral infrastructure is in the manual; we saw it in 2016, and we know it’s an option now,” however, DHS had not noticed “anything express where we saw many particular attempts opposed to a given system.”The official said.
Bill Evanina, who runs the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, published an intelligence assessment in early August, warned that Russia is seeking to denigrate Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.He also said China “prefers” Trump to be re-elected and “extends its efforts to influence him by November 2020 ” and that Iran” seeks to undermine “Trump’s presidency.