https://www.cbronline.com/news/ransomware-election-warning-blue-leaks
By Claudia Glover
cbronline.com
23rd June 2020
The FBI remains deeply concerned that ransomware delivered through managed
service providers (MSPs) to US government networks could threaten
elections, a leaked document reveals.
The May 1 warning was revealed in a batch of hundreds of thousands of
police and homeland security documents leaked this week by hacktivist
collective Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets) in a cache of PDF
files, emails and CSV datasets dubbed Blue Leaks.
The document expressed the worry that attacks through MSPs could effect
elections even if this was not the actor’s intention:
“The FBI assesses ransomware infections delivered through managed service
providers to US and state government networks likely will threaten the
availability of data on interconnected election servers, even is this is
not the actors’ intention”, one document warns.
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