Russia remains 'active threat' in influencing 2024 election, likely to focus on swing states: U.S. officials

American quality officials released a caller connection informing astir Russian actors conducting "additional power operations" to interaction the upcoming predetermination connected Tuesday.

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) published the latest update connected its website connected Monday evening. Speaking connected behalf of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the ODNI elaborate the latest quality findings.

Last week, officials said that they observed Russian actors creating and disseminating a fake video that showed individuals voting illegally, and a video accusing a person of taking a bribe. Since then, the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) has observed Russia and different overseas adversaries "conducting further power operations intended to undermine nationalist assurance successful the integrity of U.S. elections and stoke divisions among Americans."

"The IC expects these activities volition intensify done predetermination time and successful the coming weeks, and that overseas power narratives volition absorption connected plaything states," the connection read.

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Florida residents hold successful enactment astatine an aboriginal polling precinct to formed their ballots successful local, state, and nationalist elections, successful Clearwater, Florida, U.S., November 3, 2024.  (REUTERS/Octavio Jones)

Of each the overseas adversaries seeking to interaction the election, the ODNI said that Russia "is the astir progressive threat."

"Influence actors linked to Russia successful peculiar are manufacturing videos and creating fake articles to undermine the legitimacy of the election, instill fearfulness successful voters regarding the predetermination process, and suggest Americans are utilizing unit against each different owed to governmental preferences, judging from accusation disposable to the IC," the ODNI continued. "These efforts hazard inciting violence, including against predetermination officials."

"We expect Russian actors volition merchandise further manufactured contented with these themes done predetermination time and successful the days and weeks aft polls close."

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A canvass worker, center, works astatine a array arsenic voters hole to formed their ballots during aboriginal voting successful the wide election, Friday, Nov. 1, 2024, successful Fall River, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

In caller days, Russian actors created an nonfiction reporting astir mendacious plans for plaything authorities officials to orchestrate predetermination fraud, and besides made a caller video that "falsely depicted an interrogation with an idiosyncratic claiming predetermination fraud successful Arizona.

Officials besides judge that Iranian actors whitethorn beryllium meddling with the predetermination and disseminating mendacious information, arsenic they person done successful the past. The meddlers whitethorn mean "to make fake media contented intended to suppress voting oregon stoke violence, arsenic they person done successful past predetermination cycles," the ODNI noted.

The FBI encourages anyone who observes suspicious oregon transgression enactment to telephone 1-800-CALL-FBI. Cyber incidents impacting predetermination infrastructure tin beryllium reported to the CISA done the fig 1-844-SAY-CISA.

The study came little than 24 hours earlier polls are acceptable to unfastened connected Nov. 5, successful what is expected to beryllium a toss-up predetermination betwixt Vice President Harris and erstwhile President Trump. Swing states crossed the state person been connected the lookout for fake ballots.

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Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris were neck-and-neck successful polls connected the eve of Nov. 5. (AP/Evan Vucci/Jacquelyn Martin)

On Monday, the seat of a Pennsylvania region predetermination board announced that helium had recovered 2,500 suspicious registration and mail-in ballot applications. At slightest 17% of the applications were fraudulent.