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Washington is afraid of launching cyberattacks on election date
There are growing fears of interference in the results of the US elections by various outside parties, the first of which is Russia and Iran, especially with the continuation of Syrian attacks in the recent period.
Military officials explained that the Cybersecurity Command of the US Department of Defense, “the Pentagon”, has expanded its operations abroad with the aim of finding hacker groups before US election day.
According to the “New York Times” website, this expansion aims to monitor and combat the methods and methods of cyberattacks in China, Iran and North Korea, as well as Russia.
In addition to the Cyber Security Command’s new operations in Europe to hunt down Russian hackers, teams have also been dispatched to the Middle East and Asia in the past two years to help find Iranian, Chinese and North Korean hacking groups and identify the tools. they were using to get onto computer networks, the newspaper said.
The US Army Cybersecurity Command began expanding its functions in 2018, when it sent teams to North Macedonia, Montenegro, and other countries to learn more about the Russian offensive, reflecting the intensive efforts to secure the presidential elections. of this year.
The “New York Times” newspaper noted that the US Army’s offensive and defensive operations were largely sidelined in 2016. But in the 2018 midterm elections, the Cybersecurity Command took a more offensive stance , not only sending specialized teams to allied countries, but also sending warning messages for possible Russian hackers.
And if operations in 2018 were primarily focused on Russia, then this year’s “cyber operations” included Iran and China to determine their potential impact on the US elections.
“Since 2018, we have expanded our searches to include all significant adversaries,” said Lt. Gen. Charles L. Moore Jr., Vice President of E-Command.
Cybersecurity Command officials said they continued to try to identify and stop external threats to the elections after the 2018 midterm vote, adding new partners to their defense network.
“We want to find the bad guys in their work environment,” Moore said. “We want to eliminate the archers instead of dodging the arrows.”
He continued: “We do not stop or think about stopping our operations after November 3 because defending the elections is part of a permanent and ongoing campaign to lead cybersecurity.”
