Are 2024 US Political Campaigns Prepared for the Coming Cyber Threats?

The article describes a recent spike in cyber threats against the 2024 U.S. election cycle: Iran-linked Charming Kitten (APT42) used a compromised email account to send phishing to a senior campaign official, a Telegram bot harvested credentials tied to party accounts, and dozens across campaigns were targeted; the piece explains why campaigns remain vulnerable (short timelines, volunteer devices, limited budgets) and highlights mitigation efforts such as DDC, hardware tokens, and free protections like Cloudflare and Google's Project Shield.