Over 5,000 malicious domains targeting 2026 US Midterm elections spotted going live – and they could be used for…
- Check Point Research warns Russia and other nation‑states are running large‑scale disinformation campaigns ahead of the US midterms
- Operations include phishing sites, fake donation portals, and Doppelganger clones of major outlets
- Midterm elections are scheduled for November this year
Russia (and probably other nation-states, as well) is actively trying to influence US Midterm elections scheduled to take place in November this year. This is according to a new report from cybersecurity researchers Check Point Research, who said they saw more than 5,000 election-themed websites pop up since January this year.
“In this new era of AI-powered disinformation, the goal is often not to change vote counts directly, but to convince voters that truth itself is difficult to verify,” the researchers said. In other words, these hackers are not targeting the machines that count the votes, but rather humans casting them, influencing them and thus changing the outcome of the...
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