Leaked Docs Reveal FBI Fears over Ransomware Threat to Election Networks

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

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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