Investigators found evidence of a “malicious intrusion” into a Tennessee county’s elections website from a computer in Ukraine during a concerted cyberattack, which likely caused the site to crash just as it was reporting vote totals in this month’s primary.
Cyber-security experts hired by Knox County to analyze the so-called “denial of service” cyberattack, said Friday that “a suspiciously large number of foreign countries” accessed the site as votes were being reported on May 1.
That intense activity was among the likely causes of the crash, according to the report by Sword & Shield Enterprise Security.
“Given the circumstantial evidence_especially the simultaneous proven …read more
Source: TPM
