2024 Election Threat Landscape
By: The Center for Internet Security, Inc. (CIS®) Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) team at the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center® (MS-ISAC®)
Published on October 31, 2024
The 2024 election threat landscape represents one of the most dynamic and complex threat environments U.S. election officials and organizations have faced. As a result, the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC), the Elections Infrastructure Information Sharing and Analysis Center® (EI-ISAC®), the Electricity Information & Analysis Center (E-ISAC), the Faith-Based Information Sharing & Analysis Organization (FB-ISAO), and the Water Information Sharing & Analysis Center (WaterISAC) have published this white paper highlighting threats to elections infrastructure in the leadup to the 2024 November General Election. This paper discusses threats from the cyber, physical, and hybrid perspectives, and it includes recommendations for how election offices and associated parties can improve their preparedness.
About the Author:
The CIS Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) team at the Multi-State and Elections Infrastructure Information Sharing and Analysis Centers (MS-ISAC® and EI-ISAC®) functions as the premier CTI source for all U.S. State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial (SLTT) entities and election offices. With decades of combined experience in all types of industries, the CTI team pushes out curated SLTT-centric threat intelligence reporting as well as malicious indicators via near real-time threat feeds. This information helps SLTTs anticipate and proactively defend against emerging cyber threats and shifts in adversarial tactics, techniques, and procedures. Additional information: team tradecraft and indicator feeds. Supported via cooperative agreement No. 23CISMSI00003-01-01 - 09/29/2025 awarded through the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (U.S. DHS). The analysis, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this document are those of the MS-ISAC and EI-ISAC.
