{"id":9996,"date":"2024-02-15T22:22:49","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T16:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/15\/trellix-report-cyberattacks-target-taiwans-democracy-highlighting-election-risks\/"},"modified":"2024-02-15T22:22:49","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T16:52:49","slug":"trellix-report-cyberattacks-target-taiwans-democracy-highlighting-election-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/15\/trellix-report-cyberattacks-target-taiwans-democracy-highlighting-election-risks\/","title":{"rendered":"Trellix Report: Cyberattacks Target Taiwan&#8217;s Democracy, Highlighting Election Risks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_82\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>Hackers ramped up their activities just as Taiwanese voters geared up to participate in last month\u2019s national elections, according to officials at U.S.-based cybersecurity firm Trellix. The surge in hacking efforts, detected by Trellix, targeted the island democracy in the run-up to the tense elections. The firm\u2019s analysis suggests that the hackers were likely seeking compromising material to unleash a last-minute surprise and sway voters\u2019 opinions.<\/p>\n<p>The cyberattacks, outlined in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trellix.com\/assets\/threat-reports\/trelllix-threat-report-nov-2023.pdf\">report<\/a> released Tuesday by the California-based company, do not seem to have impacted the election\u2019s outcome. However, they raise concerns about potential threats to U.S. elections, especially with the upcoming November elections on the horizon, stated Anne An, a lead threat intelligence researcher for Trellix. Unlike Taiwan\u2019s strict paper-ballot system, the United States has multiple voting methods, providing attackers with a wider array of opportunities to disrupt the electoral process.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. An emphasized that the tactics observed in Taiwan could be a harbinger of threats facing U.S. elections. The heightened interest in Taiwan\u2019s elections, with polls forecasting a tight race between pro- and anti-China candidates, attracted significant attention from Beijing\u2019s ruling Communist Party.<\/p>\n<p>Trellix\u2019s data revealed a significant increase in threats in the days leading up to Taiwan\u2019s presidential election, followed by a sharp decline in activity on election day. The cybersecurity threat surged from 1,758 detected on Jan. 11 to over 4,300 on Jan. 12, the day preceding the election, as per Trellix\u2019s findings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/americanfaith.com\/trellix-report-cyberattacks-target-taiwans-democracy-highlighting-election-risks\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hackers ramped up their activities just as Taiwanese voters geared up to participate in last month\u2019s national elections, according to officials at U.S.-based cybersecurity firm Trellix. The surge in hacking efforts, detected by Trellix, targeted the island democracy in the run-up to the tense elections. The firm\u2019s analysis suggests that the hackers were likely seeking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[]},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9996"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}