Anomali Labs Research Shows Email-Based Attacks Continue to Threaten Election Security

<p>The Anomali Labs team today published research on the potential for email-based attacks against election infrastructure. The new report, “Can Lightning Strike the US Elections Twice?: Email Spoofing Threat to the 2018 US Midterm Elections,” reveals that most US states have vulnerabilities that would allow email spoofing and phishing attacks to succeed.<br/> <br/> The Anomali Labs team examined the secretary of state and voter registration websites for all 50 US states, the District of Columbia, and 5 US territories. Each site was evaluated to detect the use of six email security technologies. <br/> <br/> <img alt="" src="https://cdn.filestackcontent.com/2rTgP2zPSxiFXcFllYxL"/><br/> The full report is <a href="https://www.anomali.com/resources/whitepapers/email-spoofing-threat-to-the-2018-us-midterm-elections?cid=7011Y0000011I2q" target="_blank">available for download here</a>. This is the first of a series of upcoming election-related research reports from Anomali Labs.<br/>  </p>