{"id":1718725,"date":"2022-10-31T15:19:44","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T19:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1718725"},"modified":"2022-10-31T15:19:49","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T19:19:49","slug":"china-working-to-undermine-midterm-elections-cybersecurity-group-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-working-to-undermine-midterm-elections-cybersecurity-group-says\/","title":{"rendered":"China Working To Undermine Midterm Elections, Cybersecurity Group Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchina-working-to-undermine-midterm-elections-cybersecurity-group-says%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1718725&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/\">National Security<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">China, Russia, Iran sowing dissent ahead of midterm elections<\/p>\n<p>    BEIJING, CHINA &#8211; OCTOBER 24: Chinese President Xi Jinping (C) and other Chinese politicians and delegates listen to the national anthem duirng the closing of the 19th Communist Party Congress at the Great Hall of the People on October 24, 2017 in Beijing, China. The 19th CPC National Congress is set to run 7 days and a new central committee of CPC will be produced. (Photo by Lintao Zhang\/Getty Images)   <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/adam-kredo\/\" title=\"Posts by Adam Kredo\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Adam Kredo<\/a> \u2022 October 31, 2022 3:10 pm  <\/p>\n<p>Communist China is behind a massive online disinformation campaign aimed at undermining the upcoming U.S. midterm elections, according to findings by a cybersecurity group.<\/p>\n<p>China is using a network of social media accounts and altered news articles to &#8220;sow division both between the U.S. and its allies and within the U.S. political system itself,&#8221; according to a threat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mandiant.com\/resources\/blog\/prc-dragonbridge-influence-elections\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">assessment<\/a> by Mandiant, a cybersecurity and intelligence organization that works with governments and the public sector. China\u2019s latest efforts to undermine the American democratic process come amid parallel attempts by Russia and Iran to interfere with the upcoming elections.<\/p>\n<p>The CCP influence operation, dubbed Dragonbridge, is attracting concern in the cybersecurity sector for its &#8220;aggressive attempts to discredit the U.S. democratic process, including attempts to discourage Americans from voting in the 2022 U.S. midterm elections,&#8221; according to Mandiant\u2019s research. The organization assesses &#8220;with high confidence&#8221; that the online campaign is &#8220;operating in support of the political interests of the People\u2019s Republic of China.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Efforts by foreign actors to meddle in the upcoming elections have fueled concerns among federal authorities, including the FBI, which recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ic3.gov\/Media\/News\/2022\/221020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">warned<\/a> that an Iranian government-backed hacking collective is working to target U.S. entities. Russia also &#8220;is working to amplify doubts about the integrity of U.S. elections&#8221; as voters head to the polls next week, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/2022-midterm-elections-russia-ukraine-campaigns-presidential-ea913f2b3b818651a9db1327adaa330a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according<\/a> to the Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>The CCP\u2019s Dragonbridge operation has similar hallmarks to those of other foreign actors, according to Mandiant. Dragonbridge, through a network of online social media accounts that obfuscate their true identity, is promoting &#8220;narratives that appeared intended to discredit and undermine the U.S. political system.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In September, for instance, Dragonbridge-affiliated accounts posted an English-language video on online platforms that included &#8220;content attempting to discourage Americans from voting in the upcoming U.S. midterm elections.&#8221; Like the efforts helmed by Russia and Iran, China wants to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Communist China is behind a massive online disinformation campaign aimed at undermining the upcoming U.S. midterm elections, according to findings by a cybersecurity group.<br \/>\nThe post China Working To Undermine Midterm Elections, Cybersecurity Group Says appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":117,"featured_media":1718728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1718725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1718725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1718728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1718725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1718725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1718725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}