"U.S. Says Iranian Hackers Accessed Voter Information"

According to an alert issued by the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), an Iranian threat actor has accessed voter registration data. This alert follows another warning released by the United States one week ago about Democratic voters in multiple states being targeted by the same adversary with malicious emails aimed at getting them to vote for President Donald Trump. The new alert says an Iran-based adversary used open-source queries to access PDF documents from state voter sites and conducted research to find specific information that could be leveraged in exploitation attempts. Organizations are encouraged to update their applications and systems, identify and fix known vulnerabilities, implement firewalls, and apply two-factor authentication (2FA). This article continues to discuss the recent warning about the compromise of voter information by an Iranian threat actor, previous alerts about the targeting of voters by the same adversary, and what organizations should do to stay protected.

Security Week reports "U.S. Says Iranian Hackers Accessed Voter Information"