Iranian Hacking Group Hacked Local Government Election Reporting Site in 2020
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At this year’s RSA conference, Gen. William J. Hartman, commander of the Cyber Command’s Cyber National Mission Force, said the US military discovered that an Iranian hacking group had penetrated a local government website that was to report 2020 election results and disrupted the attack before the votes were tallied.
During a joint presentation with Eric Goldstein, leader for cybersecurity at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Hartman said the Iranian group was known in the industry as Pioneer Kitten. He said it was a distinct operation from another 2020 Iranian disruption attempt in which faked emails supposedly from the militant far-right Proud Boys threatened voters if they didn’t support Donald Trump.
He and Goldstein said that while neither the votes nor the counting machines would have been affected by the intrusion, the hackers could have rendered the public-facing website for displaying results unreachable or posted f…
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