The Art of Cyberwarfare

4 Election Hacking

In the early hours of the morning on May 22, 2014, four days before the Ukrainian presidential election, attackers breached the Ukrainian Central Election Committee (CEC) network. Silently, the attackers probed the infrastructure and, in doing so, identified critical servers designated for housing data and facilitating services used to run election operations. They then placed malware onto the servers, rendering the systems responsible for tallying votes obsolete.¹

This attack against the Ukrainian Central Election Committee took place two years before the well-known interference in the 2016 U.S. election, and today Russia ...