Security News > 2020 > October > Cybercriminals Step Up Their Game Ahead of U.S. Elections

With the U.S. presidential elections a mere few weeks away, the security industry is hyper-aware of security vulnerabilities in election infrastructure, cyberattacks against campaign staffers and ongoing disinformation campaigns.

The good news, Olney, said in a recent video interview with Threatpost, is that awareness of election-security threats has increased since the 2016 elections.

So first of all, let's set the context here for this upcoming election, in comparison to previous elections - what are the similarities that we're seeing and the differences we're seeing, going into November 2020, as opposed to 2016?

Taking a step back, I feel like the election cybersecurity problem that we're facing is two forked in that we have election security, which impacts the infrastructure itself and kind of the security of election machines and whatnot.

MO: Yeah, so one of the things that we've been pretty consistent on our side is, we've been optimistic about elections in general, because we look at it as an industry.

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https://threatpost.com/cybercriminals-step-up-game-us-elections/160373/