Mandiant ‘highly confident’ foreign cyberspies will target US midterm elections

Mandiant is "highly confident" that foreign cyberspies will target US election infrastructure, organizations, and individuals in the run-up to the November midterm elections. Based on recent activity by various threat groups, as well as previous election targeting, the security firm expects nation-state backed gangs in Russia …

[Yet Another Anonymous coward]

Good luck !

>impersonating US political candidates to push false narrative

Deepfake versions of some politicians would only be an improvement

[VoiceOfTruth]

Mandiant again

I would like to read a report from Mandiant about American cyberspies targeting elections around the world. But I won't. American four legs good, everyone else two legs bad.

[Yet Another Anonymous coward]

Re: Mandiant again

Generally my experience of 4legged Americans has been more positive than many of the 2 legged ones.

(With the exception of Moose)

[Sandtitz]

Re: Mandiant again

"I would like to read a report from Mandiant about American cyberspies targeting elections around the world. But I won't."

In which countries have American cyberspies targeted elections?

Certainly not in Russia or China since neither have elections anyway.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Mandiant again

In 2015, a director at Google bragged that they had thrown an election in Central America. This was during the weekly "TGIF"--roughly an optional all hands.

I was in the TGIF.

[John Smith 19]

Dictatorships like to encourage in others what they most fear at home.

Which is the (apparent) chaos of democracy.

If their s**t stirring elects a narcisistic bully who can be played like a banjo with enough flattery so much the better.

Unfortunately no one teaches a course called "Critical thinking skills" or "Bu***hit detection" to give it a pithier name.

[jdiebdhidbsusbvwbsidnsoskebid]

Re: Dictatorships like to encourage in others what they most fear at home.

"Unfortunately no one teaches a course called "Critical thinking skills" or "Bu***hit detection" to give it a pithier name."

Not true, just googling "critical thinking courses" returns plenty - certainly enough options for me to have to spend time weeding out the good from the bad if I wanted one. And at least, here in the UK my kids learn that sort of thing all the time at school. From what I can make out, it's embedded in many subjects: How to question and challenge sources etc. And my kids are young enough for me to think it's standard across the whole curriculum.

I even remember it back when I was at school.

[amanfromMars 1]

Re: Dictatorships like to encourage in others what they most fear at home.

Good Little Robots'R'Us aka Cuckolds and Puppets and Muppets

Not true, just googling "critical thinking courses" returns plenty - certainly enough options for me to have to spend time weeding out the good from the bad if I wanted one. And at least, here in the UK my kids learn that sort of thing all the time at school. From what I can make out, it's embedded in many subjects: How to question and challenge sources etc. And my kids are young enough for me to think it's standard across the whole curriculum.

I even remember it back when I was at school. ....... jdiebdhidbsusbvwbsidnsoskebid

I find that impossible to believe whenever the vast majority of the national and international population mindlessly believe what mainstream media broadbandcasts to them.

But it sure isn't just as easy as it used to be and that is increasingly proving disastrously problematical for the traditional hierarchical status quos stuck with the inheritance of establishments drowning with the weight in the sorrows of all past woes.

And their twisted thinking and enfeebling and ignoble efforts to keep dissenting voices without an audience amplifies their messages farther afield and deeper underground and higher up into enlightened and enamoured chains of remote command and control than can ever be contained and extinguished and defeated.

Times and spaces and how things be done in them, for better or for worse for the beings in them, are changed, and such a strange thing is never going back to way IT was abused and misused before.

Poke the bear, reap the whirlwind. Silence the truth has one always facing defeat and dishonour with the sharing of every scrap of fake news.

[amanfromMars 1]

Some business models are laced with vapourware

Mandiant ‘highly confident’ foreign cyberspies will target US midterm elections

It is with a heavy heart that we must announce that the hackers are at it again

And it is also registered, with an equally heavy heart, that Mandiant wannabe cyberspooks are at it again, upping the ante in case Google see the light and the plight and the flight of 0days ‽ .

[fajensen]

So, the priority is to "Worry about Foreigners" while the locals are doing their very best to sabotage US elections right out in the open?

[Ordinary Donkey]

They're only Russians if they get caught.

[Anonymous Coward]

Don't forget all the foreign hackers being paid by Americans. (have they ever had an honest election?)

[John Smith 19]

while the locals are doing their very best to sabotage US elections

Lead by the buffoon-in-chief AKA Captain Combover.

I discovered that Alaska changed it's election method for Govenor to a PR system where you state your preferences and they don't have to be all with the same party.

So the Reps had a good Rep candidate, and then Sarah Palin and the Dems had a good candidate.

The good Rep candidate wasn't quite good enough and it turned out most Reps 2nd choice was in fact the good Dem candidate.

Palin is playing the "I-was-robbed-this-is-unconstitutional-that-a-republican-candidate-can-loose-the-governorship-the-the-people-didnt-understand-what-they-were-doing" card.

However this election was only because of the premature exit of the last governor and it's unclear if there will be another election at the standard time as well in a few months.

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh good! The seed is sown lest the results don't align with the plan.