US Military Foils Iranian Hackers Attempt to Manipulate 2020 Election Results.

Iranian hackers accessed a US municipal website for reporting unofficial election results in 2020 but were kicked off the network by US military hackers and didn’t have any impact on voting, a top US general said. The US military then executed its own cyber operation to kick the Iranians off of the network of the US city to ensure the Iranian hackers were “unable to come back into the network” in the runup to the 2020 election. The episode illustrates how cyberspace has become a key frontier in various governments’ efforts to shape, influence and defend elections.