Feds, Facebook and Microsoft brief state election officials on cyberthreats

StateScoop: Top cybersecurity officials from the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI, Microsoft and Facebook briefed state election officials Friday on the latest foreign threats against their voting systems.

The call came a week and a half after DHS convened a nationwide election-security drill that included 44 states and the District of Columbia, and just days after Microsoft announced it shut down six internet domains linked to Russian intelligence that were spoofing websites associated with the U.S. Senate and two right-wing think tanks.

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