WASHINGTON, United States
The United States cybersecurity agency CISA, alongside the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), issued a joint warning on election interference on Monday.
The three agencies said they
had "been observing foreign adversaries, particularly Russia, conducting
additional influence operations intended to undermine public confidence in the
integrity of US elections and stoke divisions among Americans."
"Russia is the
most active threat," the statement said.
"These efforts risk
inciting violence, including against election officials," the agencies
said. "We anticipate Russian actors will release additional manufactured
content with these themes through election day and in the days and weeks after
polls close."
The agencies said that
Russian-influenced operators had posted false articles and videos claiming
electoral fraud in favor of Vice President Kamala Harris.
The statement also said
that Iran had
launched "malicious cyber activities" to negatively
impact the Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's campaign.
CISA chief Jen Easterly
said her department had seen no activity that could directly affect
the US election result, but reported a rise in disinformation thought to be
orchestrated from abroad, according to reporting from Reuters.
She added that the 2024 US
presidential election had been confronted with an "unprecedented"
amount of disinformation from certain "adversaries."
Easterly said the
"election infrastructure has never been more secure and that the election
community has never been better prepared to deliver safe, secure, free and fair
elections."
Easterly recently told NBC
News that Russia, Iran and China were conducting influence operations to
undermine American confidence in election legitimacy and "to stoke
partisan discord."
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