"US presidential election results not compromised" - Agencies

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."