1 hour ago · United States
This Cybersecurity Agency Is Supposed to Protect U.S. Elections. Officials Fear It’s Been Compromised by Trump.
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SignalsMonitor is following this as a security story. ProPublica is the outlet attached so far. The reports are tied to United States. The first report grouped here was at 19 Oct 2026, 09:00 UTC. The headline in use is “This Cybersecurity Agency Is Supposed to Protect U.S. Elections. Officials Fear It’s Been Compromised by Trump.”. This note is SignalsMonitor's own briefing, not the publisher's article.
What we know
A few months into President Donald Trump’s second term, political appointees at the Department of Homeland Security made an unusual request of its agency focused on cybersecurity: Secretly acquire a voting machine and hack it. The appointees wanted the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to procure the machine, examine it…
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