ABC News: FBI warns of cyberattacks on state election boards

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ABC News: FBI warns of cyberattacks on state election boards

The FBI is warning all states to tighten security measures related to their online election systems after hackers successfully infiltrated one state board of election and targeted another, according to ABC News.

"The FBI is requesting that states contact their Board of Elections and determine if any similar activity ... has been detected," the agency's Cyber Division said in a bulletin recently sent to private-industry partners across the country, ABC News wrote. In late June, an "unknown actor scanned a state's Board of Election website for vulnerabilities" and, after identifying a security gap, exploited the vulnerability to conduct a "data exfiltration," the FBI said in its August 18 "flash" bulletin. Earlier this month, hackers used the same vulnerability in an "attempted intrusion activities into another state's Board of Election system," the FBI said. The bulletin did not say who may be behind the cyberattacks, or where they may be located. The bulletin, first reported by Yahoo News, notes that the FBI "routinely advises private industry of various cyber threat indicators observed during the course of our investigations." "This data is provided in order to help cyber security professionals and system administrators to guard against the persistent malicious actions of cyber criminals," the bulletin added.

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