Security News > 2020 > September > Officials: Washington Being Targeted by Phishing Campaign
Washington state is among those being targeted by a "Large-scale, highly sophisticated" nationwide phishing campaign, the office of Gov. Jay Inslee said Thursday.
At a press conference Thursday, Inslee said that the state is taking proactive measures to protect state systems, but he said that no ransomware activity has occurred among the agencies targeted, and no state services have been impacted.
"We've seen a ramp up in activity over the past week, which is why we are taking the proactive measures we're taking to make sure that we're doing the due diligence that we need to do to protect the state and the state assets and resources," said James Weaver, the state chief information officer.
Weaver and Vinod Brahmapuram, the state chief information security officer, said that they haven't seen any indicators that there were attempts to exploit the state's election infrastructure but said they would continue to work with Secretary of State Kim Wyman.
An email from Inslee's office said that an indicator in the current phishing campaign is that the sender's email address doesn't match the person supposedly sending the email.