Foreign Threats to Elections

Deep fakes and lies are spread like wildfire on social media by domestic bad actors and foreign bad actors.  Domestic bad actors create chaos and undermine confidence in election results and foreign bad actors take that information and help to spread the lies. 

• ODNI Releases Intelligence Community Assessment of Foreign Threats to the 2022 U.S. Elections - December 2023

• Joint Statement from the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security Assessing the Impact of Foreign Interference During the 2022 U.S. Mid-Term Election - December 2023

• Other Countries' Activities During the 2022 Election Cycle - December 2023

• FBI and CISA Publish a PSA on Malicious Cyber Activity Against Election Infrastructure - October 2022

• FBI Releases PIN on Phishing Campaign against U.S. Election Officials - March 2022

• CISA Insights: Foreign Influence Operations Targeting Critical Infrastructure - February 2022

• Summary of Terrorism Threat to the U.S. Homeland (Department of Homeland Security) - February 2022

• Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Cyber Operations: Trends and Best Practices for Network Defenders - April 2021

• FBI-DHS-CISA Joint Advisory on Russian Foreign Intelligence Service Cyber Operations - September 2021

• Iranian Advanced Persistent Threat Actor Identified Obtaining Voter Registration Data- October 2020

• Iranian Advanced Persistent Threat Actors Threaten Election-Related Systems - October 2020

• Russian State-Sponsored Advanced Persistent Threat Actor Compromises U.S. Government Targets - October 2020

• Statement from CISA Director Krebs on Election Security Announcement - October 2020

• Homeland Threat Assessment - October 2020

• Foreign enemies are peddling conspiracy theories to cause confusion about COVID-19. - May 2020 and October 2020

• Foreign Actors and Cybercriminals Likely to Spread Disinformation Regarding 2020 Election Results - September 2020