With over 50 elections set to take place around the globe in 2024, around two billion people will head to the polls before the year is out. That creates a greater opportunity than ever for hostile nations to trial new and refined cyber-attack techniques, according to cybersecurity firm Mandiant.
As reported by Techradar: “Data theft, distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, hack and leak operations, and various information operation (IO) campaigns using social media are all ranked as some of the most likely tactics used to affect election campaigns and voters, with Mandiant assessing that these could be used in layered campaigns that each seek to magnify the effect of each other.”
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