Foreign Cyber Threats to the 2020 US Presidential Election

This report summarizes foreign influence and cyber operations aimed at the 2020 U.S. election: Russian, Iranian, and Chinese state-linked actors ran disinformation campaigns and social-media manipulations (e.g., Peace Data, newsstand7, compromised Twitter/YouTube accounts), APT groups conducted spearphishing and hack-and-leak attempts against campaigns, and there is an identified risk of ransomware and attacks against election infrastructure that could disrupt voting or results.