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In Boston Exercise, Election Hackers Bypass Voting Machines

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STIX ID: report--c5d26959-df45-579e-9947-e50ff62bd44a

Feed Name: Security Ledger

Date Published: 2018-09-22

Date Updated: 2026-04-26

Author: Paul Roberts

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A Boston tabletop exercise simulated an election-focused cyber operation by a fictional group (BETF) that used false emergency alerts, misinformation via social media, outages of 9-1-1, and attacks on traffic control to sow chaos and undermine voter confidence; the exercise highlighted gaps in local planning and the broad threat surface beyond voting machines.

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