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The danger: foreign interference in the Israeli elections
The US National Intelligence Agency has released a report accusing Russia, Iran, Hezbollah and others of trying to interfere in the US elections. While no evidence of falsification was found, it is still a real danger. Can a similar thing happen in Israel?
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Ram Levy
Sunday, 21 March 2021, 10:05 Updated: 12:01
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A few days ago, the US National Intelligence Agency (DNI) published a report in which it accuses Russia, Iran, Hezbollah and others of attempting to intervene in the US elections. The good news - no evidence was found that they managed to infiltrate the voting systems and falsify the results. Many of the disinformation campaigns and cyber-attacks are aimed at influencing the mood of the electorate.
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Iran has carried out a wide range of actions under Khamenei's orders aimed at undermining Trump's campaign.
Even before the election, the US administration imposed sanctions on five Iranian bodies that included: the Revolutionary Guards, the Quds Force of the Revolutionary Guards (the special forces of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, responsible for all covert operations outside Iran, the Bayan Rashan Gostar Institute). Institute), the Radio and Television Association and the International Association of Virtual Media.According
to the US Agency for Cyber and Infrastructure (CISA) Iran has created fictitious media sites and falsified legitimate media sites aimed at disrupting Trump's campaign, distracting politicians from particularly interesting internal politicians. The misinformation about election fraud. Iran also carried out an act of influence against the actual voters. In fake and threatening emails sent to Democrats in swinging countries, people claiming to be from the far-right, Trump-backed group, on behalf of the proud boys ordered voters to vote for you. It can be assumed that these efforts contributed to the riots on Capitol Hill and the efforts to oust Trump after the election results were announced.
"Iran has carried out a wide range of actions under Khamenei's orders aimed at undermining Trump's campaign" (Photo: Reuters)
Despite targeting Iran, Russia was the most significant threat to the election.
In this context, both the CISA and the FBI issued another warning, warning of the Russian hacking group known as "Berserk Bear", which works for the KGB FSB's successor agency and allegedly harmed the networks of both U.S. districts. Skilled by Russian hackers, he is known within the FSB as a center 16. It was estimated that their scope of activity was lower than in the 2016 election when Russia broke into the Democratic Party (DNC) mail servers. Van Ratliff said the goal was "to cause confusion, sow chaos and undermine (voters') trust in American democracy."
What can we learn about this regarding the upcoming elections in Israel?
That here too it can happen, if it does not happen already now without us knowing.
Last November, the prime minister posted a Facebook post accusing Iran of encouraging black flag demonstrations.
The post came after a Facebook report that they had removed accounts from foreign entities that were involved in disinformation campaigns.
Although reading the Facebook report it is not possible to determine this, but what can be determined is that there were Instagram and Facebook accounts that were activated from Iran and pushed content of the black flags. Is this the Iranian government? Unclear.
The phenomenon of countries intervening in elections through public opinion campaigns is alarming It is not easy to locate these actions in real time and when they are discovered it may be too late and after the voters have gone to the polls. Therefore, a focused national effort is needed that includes the intelligence arms to understand the direction and capabilities of opponents and close collaboration with technology companies, including Facebook and Twitter. And download these techniques as soon as possible.
Therefore, if Ali Khamenei gave the order to intervene in the US election, there is no reason why he should not do the same in the Israeli election. If it is indeed revealed that Iran intervened in the Israeli election, what price will you pay?
Here, too, it can happen, if it does not happen now without our knowledge (Photo: Official website, Likud)
The author is Ram Levy, a cyber defense expert and cyber consultant and founder and CEO of Confides
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