Top NSA Cyber Official Points to Ransomware Attacks as Key Threat to 2020 Elections

Anne Neuberger, director of the newly formed Cybersecurity Directorate at the NSA, has pointed to ransomware attacks as a key danger to the 2020 elections, and that such attacks in general would be a “focus” of the directorate, which was announced in July and will be formally set up on October 1.