Security News > 2022 > November > The biggest threat to America’s election system? Ourselves

Over the years, there has been a long-standing narrative that foreign state-sponsored threat actors present the most significant cyber threat to the election process.

The threat actors also targeted devices belonging to the state boards of elections, state secretaries of state, and organizations that supported election infrastructure to steal voter data.

Perhaps it's now fair to say that, going into the US midterm elections, widespread attempts to subvert the election process from inside the United States might pose a more significant threat to the democracy of the United States than those that originate from foreign state-sponsored threat actors.

We are now seeing political leaders and their supporters inside the United States start to leverage the tactics, techniques, and procedures used by foreign state-sponsored threat actors to disrupt the election process.

As a result of this action, thousands of people across the country launched what could be considered a human-based denial-of-service attack against the election process-requiring election officials, under law, to fulfill those requests - thus taking time and resources away from their duties and responsibilities related to the upcoming midterm election.

As a result, if foreign state actors want to assert their own influence, they only need to amplify their preferred storyline of choice in the upcoming midterm election and the 2024 presidential election.

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