One of the hotly debated topics of Thursday’s presidential debate had to do with Iran and Russia, after the FBI said that foreign operatives used stolen voter registration data to intimidate Democratic voters.
Federal officials said the foreign operatives sent emails filled with disinformation to try to confuse and
"The threat actors will use anything in the news, anything that's top of mind, to get into the mindset of people and leverage social engineering to get them to take some kind of action,"
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