Ongoing Russian Cyberattacks Are Targeting U.S. Election Systems, Feds Say

Active Russian cyberattacks are targeting a wide swath of American government networks including those involved with the ongoing election, federal authorities revealed on Thursday.

The focus of the effort include "U.S. state, local, territorial, and tribal government networks, as well as aviation networks," according to a new bulletin from the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.

It continued: "As this recent malicious activity has been directed at ... government networks, there may be some risk to elections information ... However, the FBI and CISA have no evidence to date that integrity of elections data has been compromised."