CISA urged leaders of U.S. critical infrastructure organizations on Friday to increase their resilience against a growing risk of being targeted by foreign influence operations using misinformation, disinformation, and malformation (MDM) tactics. MDM campaigns can also be paired with cyberattacks as part of hybrid operations to “derive content, create confusion, heighten anxieties, and distract from other events,” CISA said. Current social factors, including heightened polarization and the ongoing global pandemic, “increase the risk and potency of influence operations””]