{"id":95744,"date":"2020-10-23T07:18:29","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T04:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/first-ransomware-attack-in-2020-election-hits-voting-infrastructure-in-georgia\/"},"modified":"2020-10-23T07:18:29","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T04:18:29","slug":"first-ransomware-attack-in-2020-election-hits-voting-infrastructure-in-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/first-ransomware-attack-in-2020-election-hits-voting-infrastructure-in-georgia\/","title":{"rendered":"# First ransomware attack in 2020 election hits voting infrastructure in Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"

“# First ransomware attack in 2020 election hits voting infrastructure in Georgia <\/strong>”
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A ransomware attack targeting the government systems of Georgia\u2019s Hall County also impacted key voting infrastructure it has been revealed.<\/p>\n

Local officials initially released few details regarding the Oct. 7 attack<\/a>, stating that \u201ccritical systems within the Hall County Government networks\u201d had been affected. Today, CNN reported<\/a> the incident \u201cmay be the first ransomware attack to hit election infrastructure this political season.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Hall County spokesperson Katie Crumley, the county\u2019s voter signature database and voting precinct map were heavily impacted by the attack. However, Crumley noted the county is in the process of bringing affected systems back online, including the map and database.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe voting process for our citizens has not been impacted due to the network issues.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The attackers are not believed to have targeted Hall County\u2019s voting systems specifically, with many of the county services being disrupted including phone and email.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Speaking to Cointelegraph Brett Callow of cybersecurity firm Emsisoft noted that US local government entities have been falling victim to ransomware attacks at a rate of app<\/a>roximately three per week, although he believes the impact on voting is more likely to be \u201ccollateral damage\u201d.<\/p>\n

But Callow believes we\u2019ll see more incidents impacting voting systems ahead of election day with the impact going beyond mere technical damage.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is also a very real risk that they may shake voter confidence in the integrity of the vote, especially as confidence may already be quite low.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Concerns have been mounting around the threat ransomware may pose to the U.S. presidential election for weeks<\/a>, with security firm NTT warning last month that criminal actors may have already penetrated key government networks and could waiting to cause havoc closer to the election.<\/p>\n

Callow said that criminals were interested in gaining maximum leverage. \u201cWhat better time to extort money from a government by holding its systems to ransom than the time those systems are needed the most?\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

On Oct. 12, Microsoft announced<\/a> it had disrupted the major ransomware network Trickbot, which was found to invoke political movements such as Black Lives Matter to trick victims into downloading malware. The IT conglomerate is also freely offering its security products to organizations involved in the election. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“# First ransomware attack in 2020 election hits voting infrastructure in Georgia ” A ransomware attack targeting the government systems of Georgia\u2019s Hall County also impacted key voting infrastructure it has been revealed. Local officials initially released few details regarding the Oct. 7 attack, stating that \u201ccritical systems within the Hall County Government networks\u201d had…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":95745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com\/s3.cointelegraph.com\/uploads\/2020-10\/d1904905-7641-4f3b-ba22-ccebc53b70ac.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[70288,32681,73240,72287,4965,67874],"class_list":["post-95744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-elections","tag-politics","tag-ransomware","tag-security","tag-technology","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}