The intelligence community is warning of an increase in US election interference as voting day approaches. But each set of hackers have their own methods and motives.
The intelligence community has labelled Russia, Iran and China as three major players in the fight to influence the upcoming US election.As the 2024 US presidential election creeps ever closer, hackers in Iran, Russia and China are stepping up their efforts to interfere in the outcome.
Iranian actors believe this year's election to be "particularly consequential" in terms of their potential impact, according to the intelligence community. "In the Iran case at the moment, whichever direction the election goes in isn't necessarily going to change the situation of Israel and Palestine."They want to exploit the outcome and cause divisions and drive protest, anger, divisive discourses online that support the destabilisation of the United States."
"Iran's operations have been notable and distinguishable for appearing later in the election season and employing cyber attacks more geared toward election conduct than swaying voters."Nalin Arachchilage, an associate professor in cyber security at RMIT University, said the report "clearly articulated" that each nation was using a different strategy for its own objectives.
"They also ran fictitious journalist personas, each with consistent profile photos across the internet," Meta's report said, adding it was a trend they had been "monitoring since 2019". "This could take the shape of blaming economic hardships in the US on providing financial help to Ukraine, painting Ukraine's government as unreliable, or amplifying voices expressing pro-Russia views on the war and its prospects," their report said.Dr Arachchilage said Russian actors were more interested in influencing "public opinion and election outcomes".
" expanding to new platforms and evolving their tactics to engage new audience spaces ahead of November," the report said.Photo shows A split image shows Donald Trump in red tie and suit speaking into a microphone and Kamala Harris gesturing as she speaks Other CCP-linked accounts have pivoted to "short-form video content" criticising the Biden administration, sometimes racking up "hundreds of thousands of views".
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