The phishing effort didn’t appear to have a big impact; some election officials who received the malicious emails told CNN that they did not click on them. But it was a reminder of cyber thre…
Unidentified hackers tried to breach the email accounts of election officials in nine states last October in an apparent “coordinated effort” to target election officials, the FBI said Tuesday while asking election officials to be on guard for hacking attempts as the midterms approach.
“The FBI judges cyber actors will likely continue or increase their targeting of US election officials with phishing campaigns in the lead-up to the 2022 US midterm elections,” the FBI said in a public advisory. It’s unclear who was responsible for the hacking effort that the FBI cited Tuesday. CNN has reached out to the FBI for comment.
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