A flurry of alerts from the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency this week heightened the already pervasive concerns around influence campaigns and cyber threats to US election systems from foreign actors. Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe along with FBI Director Christopher Wray warned Americans about Iranian actors sending spoofed emails to voters in some states. CISA updated an earlier advisory warning about a Russia-backed threat group called Energetic Bear that has targeted dozens of US state, local, territorial, and tribal government networks since September 2020.”]