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"#Chinese intelligence services have been very very active, as have the #Russia|ns" @CISAKrebs tells #BillingtonCyberSecurity
#Russia, #China, #Iran, others also active with #disinformation, pushing conspiracies like martial law takeovers, #5G towers spreading #COVID19 - "complete garbage" per @CISAKrebs
#cyber schemes moving more toward disrupting functionality as opposed to compromising data, per @CISAKrebs
55 days to go until #Election2020 and #ransomware is top of mind for @CISAgov

"Ransomware remains a threat to those [state/local] networks" per @CISAKrebs
"We are the supporting command to state & local election officials" per @CISAKrebs "We are working w/all 50 states on a regular basis"

"We're there...we're ready"
"This will be the most secure election in modern history" per @CISAKrebs, repeating assurance he has given before in run up to #ElectionTwitter

Krebs also urges voters to have patience w/results - "Democracy wasn't made overnight" he says
"They're shifting into traditional media" @CISAKrebs warns of #disinformation from countries like #Russia

"Question the intent" for any news coming from #RT #Sputnik #Ruptly, he says, urging Americans to be "critical comsumers" of media
NEW: #Colorado's Chief Information Officer echoing warnings key #Election2020 results likely will be delayed

"We're probably not going to know Tuesday at 7pm. We're probably not going to know Tuesday in the middle of the night" @ttimmonsCO tells #BillingtonCyberSecurity
"That post-election process...going to be one of those times when people express concerns" per @ttimmonsCO, saying it will be critical to help set expectations for results for #Election2020

@CISAgov has warned to expect delayed results due to large number of mail-in ballots
Voter confidence in the system key for #Election2020, per #Colorado CIO @ttimmonsCO

"If people choose not to vote because they don't think the process is trustworthy, then the bad guys have won"
.@CISA Senior Cybersecurity Advisor Matthew Masterson describes the environment surrounding #Election2020 as a "battle space" for voter confidence
.@CISA goal - "building a resilience" among US voters, per Masterson

"Don't rely on some post on @Facebook" for info on how/when you can vote
"It's that pre-bunking [as opposed to debunking]" #disinformation, @CISAgov's Masterson says of efforts to educate & prepare voters for #Election2020

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Jun 4
Some nuggets from @FBI Dir. Christopher Wray's appearance Tuesday before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies...
#ArtificialIntelligence & #Election2024-"We are, of course, seeing & I've been warning about this for some time, the role of AI to enhance efforts that our foreign adversaries have already been engaged in" per @FBI's Wray
"It's not that it [#ArtificialIntelligence] changes fundamentally what it is our adversaries want to do...it allows them to amplify to do it, to make it more sophisticated, more deceptive, cheaper, faster" per @FBI's Wray
Read 18 tweets
Mar 11
HAPPENING NOW - US intelligence chiefs testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee:

@ODNIgov Dir Avril Haines
@CIA Dir William Burns
@FBI Dir Christoper Wray
@NSAGov Dir Gen Timothy Haugh
@DefenseIntel Dir LtGen Jeffrey Krause
@StateDept Asst Sec for Intel Brett Holmgren Image
Noting that the current era is as challenging as ever, with a wide variety of threats, Senate Intelligence Committee Chair @MarkWarner calls for "redefining what we think of" when it comes to national security Image
@MarkWarner "We are no even seeing the possibility of foreign adversaries weaponizing space" in ways that could be detrimental to US way of life, per @MarkWarner
Read 73 tweets
Feb 29
NEW: @FBI joins White House, Senate intelligence committee chair in sounding alarm about foreign interference in #Election2024

"This election cycle, the US will face more adversaries, moving at a faster pace & enabled by new technology
per Dir Christopher Wray at @INSAlliance
#ArtificialIntelligence advances "lowering the barrier to entry-making it easier for both more & less-sophisticated foreign adversaries to engage in malign influence" per @FBI's Wray

"Making foreign influence efforts by players old and&new more realistic & difficult to detect"
@FBI Where are US adversaries focused?

“The attack surface for the bad guys is the private sector” per @FBI's Wray "The intelligence that we need is in the hands of the private sector, often”
Read 10 tweets
Feb 25
NEW: US worried about #Russia seeking to interfere in #Election2024

"Of course there are concerns" White House Nat'l Security Adviser @JakeSullivan46 tells @MeetThePress
"There's plenty of reason to be concerned" per @JakeSullivan46

"There is a history here in presidential elections by the #Russia|n Federation, by its intelligence services" he says

"We are going to be vigilant"
Concerns about #Russia|n interference in #Election2024 "not about politics" per @JakeSullivan46

"This is about national security. It is about a foreign country, a foreign adversary seeking to manipulate the politics & democracy of the United States of America."
Read 14 tweets
Feb 6
NEW: US confirms #Houthis using "various #Iran|ian-origin missiles & unmanned aerial vehicles" in their attacks on shipping in the #RedSea #GulfofAden

Conclusion based on new analysis by @DefenseIntel
The assessment is based on information current as January 2024 - including a "comparative analysis of publicly available images of #Iran|ian missiles & UAVs to those displayed & employed by #Houthi forces in #Yemen to attack commercial shipping" per @DefenseIntel
US @DefenseIntel on #Iran|ian drones in #Houthi arsenal:
-Sayad (Sammad) - range of 1800km
-Shahed-136 - range of 2500km
-Waid-1 (version of the Shahed-131) - range of 900km Image
Read 13 tweets
Feb 1
NEW: #alQaida expanding in #Afghanistan

AQ "established up to 8 new training camps in Afghanistan, including four in #Ghazni, #Laghman, #Parwan & #Uruzgan Provinces w/a new base to stockpile weaponry in the #Panjshir Valley" per new @UN report
The new #alQaida camps appear to be "conducting suicide bomber training for TTP [Tehrik-i-Taliban #Pakistan]" per the @UN report
Intelligence provided by @UN member states also notes #alQaida is operating madrasas in #Laghman, #Kunar, #Nangarhar, #Nuristan & #Parwan provinces

AQ also "maintains safe houses to facilitate the movement between #Afghanistan & the Islamic Republic of #Iran"
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