“While some of this activity is known, or already been reported on, this report captures how known actors and campaigns can be leveraged or otherwise refocused to support emerging security interests, including large-scale conflict,” Alden Wahlstrom, senior analyst at Mandiant, said in a statement. [read post]

The committee will hear testimony from Katie Hobbs, the secretary of state for the Arizona Department of State; Michael Adams, secretary of state for the Commonwealth of Kentucky; Al Schmidt, city commissioner on the board of elections in Philadelphia; Matt Masterson, non-resident fellow at the Stanford Internet Observatory; and Wade Henderson, interim president and CEO at the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. [read post]