THREAT INTEL: UK ELECTIONS – ”It’s Not Who Votes That Counts; But Who Counts The Votes… ” Joseph Stalin

Gibraltar: Wednesday, 5 June 2024 at 08:45 CET

CYBER THREAT INTEL:
”It’s Not Who Votes That Counts; But Who Counts The Votes… ” Joseph Stalin 
By Andy Jenkinson  – Group CEO CIP
via: Cyber Insights
SME Cybersecurity News
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#CYBERVoice #SMECyberPR #SMECybersecurityNews #InternetSecurity #Voting #Elections #DNS #PKI

In the Summer of 2020 we assisted the FBI Cyber Division in the run up to the U.S. Presidential Elections when our research discovered a Korean Server inside the DNS of https://vote.gov

In October 2022 the NCSC (part of GCHQ) were called in to the UK Electoral Commission following the discovery that 41 million UK citizens’ data had been exfiltrated through compromised Microsoft servers. The exfiltration had been going on since August 2021.

The incident was not publicly confirmed until August 2023.

Unquestionably both the UK Electoral Commission and the U.S. equivalent, Vote.gov were compromised due to exposed and insecure servers and tens of millions, if not substantially more citizens’ data was exfiltrated. The consequential crimes will potentially cause further chaos.

A burning question, why are they still exposed and Insecure today?

Over the last several years the National Security Agency (NSA) and GCHQ have added PDNS to their portfolios. However, it is evident that PDNS lacks proactive discovery capability.

The below real-time DNS records and servers of the UK Electoral Commission and Vote.gov, despite having previously been severely compromised, suffering intrusion and incidents, are clearly exposed and insecure to DNS Tampering and Abuse as defined by CISA in their 2019 Emergency Directive M-19-01.

In 2024 over 50% of the world’s citizens are headed to the Polls to democratically select their Government and leaders. We would urge you to be prepared for some unusual outcomes. Elections have been known to be rigged.

As Stalin said: ”It’s not who votes that counts, but who counts the votes.”

Wars are ‘influenced’ by The Military Industrial Complex, Elections are influenced by those in Control and Money.

Given the current exposure and insecurity, any election can be Digitally Tampered with and Adjusted to suit a desired outcome.

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