Russian hackers targeted a Florida election company as part of its campaign to disrupt the 2016 election, possibly opening a gateway to compromise voting on Election Day. Three years later, there are still a lot of unanswered questions about what happened.
DHS conducts a “hunt” and vulnerability assessment of VR Systems systems and networks and reports it didn’t find malware, according to the firm.The Mueller report asserts that in August 2016 hackers successfully attacked a voting technology company that makes voter management software. North Carolina officials asked VR Systems whether it’s the company in the report.Sen.
Aside from the issue that so much time had passed before the FireEye investigation and DHS assessment occurred, there’s a question about the scope of these investigations. Companies that hire private security firms to conduct hacking investigations, or that bring in DHS to do an assessment, control what systems investigators examine. And the VR Systems statement about the FireEye investigation mentions only the company’s “EViD servers or network,” which pertain to its electronic poll books.
It is possible that the reports from Mueller and the NSA are wrong, and that their authors—with no firsthand knowledge of events and with limited details about what occurred—mistakenly concluded that the phishing campaign against VR Systems was successful. “There’s all sorts of opportunities for miscommunication. And that miscommunication could have been perpetuated over time,” he said.
VR Systems spokesman Ben Martin thinks there’s a different explanation for the assertions made in the Mueller report and NSA document. He believes that “U.S. COMPANY 1” in the NSA document does refer to his company, but he thinks the assertion that the company was hacked is based on a faulty assumption the FBI made that has never been corrected—and that subsequently tainted the Mueller report and other government documents.
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