Exclusive: Cyber Threats To Midterms Becoming ‘Increasingly Sophisticated’



In an NBC News exclusive, Cynthia McFadden speaks with Jen Easterly, the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). Easterly spoke about this midterm election’s cybersecurity and how the threat situation has never been more complex. (In this report, we mistakenly say Alaska declined help from CISA. An Alaska election official denies answering our survey.)

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25 comments

  1. the hilarious part is they don’t even see the irony just back to Jan 6…..

  2. Stop election denying NBC I thought you guys hated that.

  3. Who needs cyber threats when you have Democrats double counting votes and putting in ballots for people that aren't even alive anymore?

  4. I am sure everyone's vote was counted…counted twice in some key areas.

  5. He we go. Excuses already on why democrats lost

  6. Just 2 years ago we had "the most secure election ever."

  7. Define election denying again……..🤨

  8. when democrats are losing, they claim false flags of “cheating and hacking” 💀

  9. Laying the groundwork innit.

  10. Is this Predictive Programming NBC? You guys deserve the Pelosi treatment

  11. No amount of shenanigans is going to stop the citizenry from showing they have had enough. Punch a quiet populace enough and you may get what Jefferson said we needed from time to time. Playing with fire, US government easily has the capability to stop this, therefore if it occurs in any meaningful way look first to the WH and relevant government agencies. Americans are not as stupid as the clowns running this country wish.

  12. Hahaha! We told you back in 2020 president race,!!! It was massive frauud!

  13. Voting machines do not need to be connected to the internet to be rigged.
    Basic voting machine programming could assure that for every 1 Republican vote, 10 votes for a Democrat are tallied.
    These algorithms are basic programming.
    This is how you get more votes than there are registered voters like happened in several states like Pennsylvania and Nevada.

  14. Republicans are projected to win EVERYTHING…
    Democrats: "There were no problems with the last election, but everything the Republicans were complaining about last time are true now!"

  15. We need to go back to same day , ID backed , in person voting.

  16. Democrats and their operatives are more of a threat to our elections than cyber or Russians.

  17. Fa ke. Election fraud doesn’t exist. 😂

  18. In other words the Democrats will have the dead voting by computer now

  19. Wow, someone in the media is going to admit that Chinese computer hackers are choosing our leaders… that would explain why the country is in the shape it’s in

  20. The amount of hypocrisy and stupidity in this "report"… funny how election systems are safe and secure when liberals are so sure they will win but as soon as they see a huge loss on the horizon… election security is in jeopardy… because of "misinformation". You can't make this stuff up

  21. "I saw them steal votes before my very eyes " kamala heels up harris 2018

  22. But but but you swore only last year that these systems were impenetrable Air gapped systems?

    At least one of these positions is a lie. Considering the source I would stand say both are lies.

  23. We all know bags of ballots were dropped off in every city