FBI Warns 2024 Illegal Immigrant Vote Video Is Russian Hoax

“Believe nothing you hear and only half of what you see” is a quote that has been attributed to both Benjamin Franklin and Edgar Allan Poe. Regardless of who said it, in the run-up to the 2024 election that will determine the next president of the United States, you’d do well to take note. Given the technological advances of recent years, especially AI-generated deepfakes, I’d be inclined to change it to “don’t believe anything you hear or see that you haven’t witnessed in real time”. A recently released warning from the Federal Bureau of Investigation adds weight to my version. Russian influence actors are distributing, FBI warned a video that appears to show people claiming to be from Haiti voting illegally in Georgia counties.

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The US 2024 election disinformation campaign

The latest FBI warning about disinformation campaigns the impact of the 2024 election comes from an analysis assisted by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. The agencies collectively concluded that “Russian influencers” made the video in question, based on available information and the previous activities of other Russian influencers. “Georgia’s secretary of state has already dismissed the video’s claims as false,” the FBI said.

While Election Day itself is almost upon us, don’t expect it to be the last attempt to interfere with the US democratic voting process. “Russian influencers also produced a video falsely accusing an individual associated with the Democratic presidential ticket of taking bribes from an American entertainer,” the FBI added.

Sowing divisions among Americans is at the heart of Russia’s disinformation campaign, according to the FBI, and is part of Moscow’s “broader effort to raise baseless questions about the integrity of US elections.”

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CISA has a mission to protect the 2024 electoral process

CISA, which describes itself as America’s Cyber ​​Defense Agency, has published a Protect2024 resource site for those with questions about the integrity of the 2024 election when it comes to election officials and election infrastructure stakeholders protecting against cyber, physical, and operational security risks to election infrastructure during the 2024 presidential election cycle. For years, America’s adversaries have targeted US elections as part of their efforts to undermine US global standing, sow discord within the United States, and influence American voters and decision-making,” CISA said, “We expect so that 2024 is no different”.

CISA has achieved a whole resource library available to anyone who wishes to refer to it. However, the TL;DR steps election officials can take to ensure they are as secure as possible during the 2024 election, even at this late stage, are as follows:

• Enable two-factor authentication.
• Manage vulnerabilities.
• Get a physical security assessment.
• Rehearse an incident response plan.

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All citizens, not just those involved in an official capacity in the voting process during the 2024 elections, should be aware of electoral threat news provided by CISA.

A series of ‘Just so you know’ public service announcements around the 2024 election were also available, covering everything from denial of service attacks TO false claims of hacked voter information.

Stay safe and make your 2024 election vote count.