Local election workers in key battlegrounds states dealt with a rise of phishing attacks coinciding with their primary elections, according to data shared with TIME
, county election workers in the key battleground states of Arizona and Pennsylvania dealt with a surge of phishing attacks coinciding with their primary elections, data shared with TIME by cybersecurity firm Trellix shows.
A wave of malicious emails targeting local election workers also crested in Arizona around the state’s primary elections on Aug. 2, according to Trellix data, rising from 617 in the first quarter of the year to 2,246 in the third quarter. One effort targeting Arizona election workers used a typical phishing scheme informing staffers that their passwords were about to expire.
Despite the recent focus on foreign influence campaigns and cyberattacks, election security remains at its core a local and state level issue, says Flynn. “U.S. election officials should focus on the human aspects of election cybersecurity as well as election disinformation and election workers’ physical security,” he says in the report. “Any apparent cyber incidents around the 2022 midterms could potentially be used to feed more election result conspiracy theories.
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