Cybersecurity
U.S. Conducted More Than Two Dozen Pre-Election Cyber Operations
- Nakasone cites efforts ‘to get ahead of foreign threats’
- Chief of NSA and Cyber Command testifies to Senate panel
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The U.S. carried out more than two dozen operations to thwart adversaries from election meddling ahead of the 2020 presidential election, according to a top intelligence official.
General Paul Nakasone, the head of the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command, testified at a Senate hearing on Thursday that Cyber Command conducted the operations “to get ahead of foreign threats before they interfered or influenced our elections.”