Florida. Always Florida. Well if not Florida then Ohio. Why is it always one of these two States that are always the problem child for US elections- PB/TK
At least 2 Florida counties targeted by Russian hacking attempt – By Steve Bousquet and Adam Playford / June 6 2017
At least two Florida elections offices got malicious emails days before the 2016 presidential election that a classified federal report says were part of a Russian cyber attack that aimed to hack into their computers.
Election supervisors in Citrus and Clay counties told the Herald/Times on Tuesday that they got the emails, but no official opened them. It is unclear if the cyber attack was successful anywhere else.
A secret intelligence report by the National Security Agency described two efforts by a Russian military intelligence unit, the GRU to disrupt the election.
The first attempt in August targeted VR Systems, a Florida vendor that sells election software to most counties in the state, and the second attempt was directed at 122 election management officials, according to The Intercept, an online national security news outlet that said it obtained a copy of the NSA’s classified intelligence report, dated May 5.
The Intercept said the second email, sent around Nov. 1, six days before Election Day and disguised as a routine message from VR Systems, was embedded with weaponized files that would have allowed “vast control over a system’s settings and functions.”
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