U.S. Federal officials who confront foreign intervention in the upcoming election said they are entering the most dangerous period in the campaign: October, at this time, the most likely malicious behavior, but there is no time to respond to respondingEssence
Russians have almost no concealment of their support for former US President Donald Trump, and Iranians -one of the most important suppliers of the Moscow in the Ukrainian war -then desperately wanted to stop him from returning to the throne of the US President,He was busy letting the hacker pierce his campaign team, leaked anything they found, and conspired to assassinate him.The U.S. Department of Justice is expected to prosecute an Iranian hacker organization that is closely related to the Islamic Revolutionary Guards on Friday as soon as Friday. The charges are hackers attacking the Trump campaign team and an account that attacks Washington reporters and other people.
China, who was once considered to play an important role in the election, seemed to be inconsistent.Therefore, China is currently focusing on local elections in the United States
This is the core content of a series of closed -door intelligence briefings held for the election staff and parliament members recently. Federal officials describe a severe, often confusing battlefield. On this battlefield, false information has intensified.Network attacks constitute the biggest risk.
At first glance, these briefings are exactly the same as what happened in 2016 and 2020.At such a meeting on September 13, US officials said that Russia is still "the most active foreign influence threat". Other countries are making a lot of confidence in the Internet to "incite discord and destroy our confidence in our election processes"Information.
But with the progress of the briefing, we can clearly see that the possible situations that may occur in the next and a half months include new features that some US election officials have never seen before.
Russia may fully support Trump, although Vladimir Putin's remarks are opposite.But in this election cycle, Russia's efforts may be offset by some of Iran's efforts, and Iran is an ally in most things in Russia.China's position is unclear.In terms of manipulating elections, new concerns have appeared, which are mainly concentrated in technology used by criminals to make American cities, companies, and hospitals unable to run normally. Whether Americans will be used to achieve similar results when Americans are preparing to vote.
"What will happen in the next two months will be a violent attack," said Angus Kim, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee and a non -party senator in Maine.He said that foreign forces are "becoming more active and aggressive."
There are countless concerns about US officials.Although the actual voting process used on November 5 seems to be safer than the previous elections -97%of the votes will use some form of paper backup to make the re -counting of votes more reliable -but federal officials have been the registration system for the registration system.The possibility of being locked was deduced by war chess. Perhaps the ransom software attack that looked like Baltimore or the Urban service closed, or the attack at the Seattle Airport.
People are worried that if the registration of American voters in the last few weeks before the election becomes difficult, the results of the election results on November 5 may occur -or in several key states such as Georgia.The election officials seem to support Trump, which may provide opportunities for the opportunity to make them have excuses without authentication voting results.
Due to these threats, intelligence officials have added confidential and non -confidential reports, including the closed -door meeting held for senators on Wednesday.Officials also held a highly confidential report for the House Intelligence Commission last week. It is understood that officials at the meeting said that the meeting quickly caused controversy because Republicans questioned the intelligence of Russia's intentions.
These complaints are exactly the same as the Republican criticisms in the past few years. Trump has questioned the US and Putin's intelligence assessment in Russia and Putin, and accuses the Federal Investigation Agency and the American intelligence agencies for pseudo Russian intervention.
This year's difference is that the U.S. government has issued a more active warning on possible election threats. It is hoped that a little education work in advance will weaken the influence of foreign actors on the election day or any re -counting.Compared with eight years ago, this was a major change. At that time, the Obama administration took a few months to officially name Russian actors and accused them of interfering with the election. This move was to defeat Hillary Clinton in Trump.It was taken later.Zhen Eastley, director of the Network Security and Infrastructure Security Bureau, said that the U.S. government is carrying much more complicated efforts this year to ensure that the public knows "what these actors are doing and how they do."The Network Security and Infrastructure Security Bureau has the main federal power to help states to defend the election system.
Eastley said that no matter who foreign forces tend to, they have a common goal.
"Their two main goals are: destroying Americans' confidence in our elections and democratic systems, and making differences in party factions," she said in an interview."These are the two goals of all our foreign opponents."
This year, officials are worried that among the increasingly polarized voters, a large number of people even have differences in election intervention issues.When Trump warned someone to manipulate the election -he increasingly proposed this allegations -he usually refers to domestic political opponents and election staff.When Democrats talk about interference, they often point to Russia -and Russia's love for Trump.
As a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Jin said: "As long as our intelligence department can determine the error information and distrust of our elections, we should take defense measures and publicize it."
Gold quoted the 68th of the Federal Party Humanities, and Alexander Hamilton pointed out that foreign politics was a serious threat in the article."This is very foresight," Jin said."After more than 200 years, it's here, all of which are staged in real time."
At the hearing of the Senate Intelligence Committee last week, members asked the representatives of Microsoft, Meta, and Google and YouTube, and asked them their efforts to resist foreign influence.
The chairman of the committee and the Virginian Democratic Senator Mark Warner said that foreign opponents "have motivated to interfere with our elections more than before."
The United States' support for Ukraine during the Democratic Party means that the November election is heavy for Russia.
"Putin understands that the public opinion and elections affecting the United States are a low -cost way weakening the West's support for Ukraine and destroying the status of the United States in the world," he said.
In the latest report released to the public this week, American intelligence officials announced that Russia and Iran are using generated artificial intelligence technology to enhance their influence on elections.Intelligence officials said that the use of artificial intelligence is not a revolutionary, but it can make foreign forces a better material.
Intelligence officials said that Russia may use artificial intelligence and standard editing tools to forge the speech by the Democratic Party nominee and vice president He Jinli, and adds what she has never said in a sound like her.
Nevertheless, it is still difficult to succeed in using artificial intelligence in the video, and it is easier to be seen by people.Therefore, Russia continues to use old -fashioned fake videos to use the actor and fictional storylines to promote some of their information.
The discovery of intelligence agencies coincides with Microsoft's work this month. Microsoft reports that Russian agents have shifted to attack He Jinli.After President Biden withdrew from the election, Russia seemed to be caught off guard at the beginning.Klinswartz, the head of the Microsoft threat analysis center, said that in a few days after He Jinli replaced Bayiden, the Russian agent continued to release a video accusing the Bayeon family of corruption.
"The Kremlin spent a few weeks to determine how to evaluate US Vice President He Jinli, and what kind of attack strategy to take." He also said: "You can see that all Russian actors are concerned about the US election."
