ככל שמתקרב מועד הבחירות לנשיאות ארצות הברית, גוברת הדריכות במוסד ובקהילת המודיעין של ישראל. מקורה לא ברצון להתערב בבחירות לטובת אחד המועמדים, אלא לוודא שגורמי הביון בישראל יקפידו לשמור על דממה מוחלטת, ושלא ידלוף חומר סודי שעלול להשפיע על התוצאות. “כמובן שאנו ממשיכים לעקוב אחר הבחירות בארצות הברית”, אמר לי בכיר לשעבר במוסד “זו חובתנו...
Tag: <span>electoral interference</span>
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Russian Intelligence Agencies Target the U.S. Vote, Abetted By Trump
[First in a Series: How Top World Intelligence Agencies Assess the US Election] Russian intelligence agencies – encouraged by the absence of any real U.S. pushback – are actively promoting disinformation about the U.S. presidential election, while seeking to hack into election systems, according to former CIA officers with Russian expertise and a wide variety...
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Six GRU Officers Charged With Cyber Attacks on Ukraine, South Korea, and French Elections
From the U.S. Department of Justice: These GRU hackers and their co-conspirators engaged in computer intrusions and attacks intended to support Russian government efforts to undermine, retaliate against, or otherwise destabilize: (1) Ukraine; (2) Georgia; (3) elections in France; (4) efforts to hold Russia accountable for its use of a weapons-grade nerve agent, Novichok, on...
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Democrats Call for Declassifying ‘Outside Threats’ after Briefing by Trump Officials
The committee was briefed by Gen. Paul Nakasone, head of U.S. Cyber Command and the director of the National Security Agency, and Kenneth Rapuano, assistant secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense and Global Security, on the Pentagon’s cybersecurity efforts to secure the Nov. 3 election. Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.), a member of the Senate Armed...