U.S. launched "more than 2 dozen" cyber operations to protect election, top official says

Washington — U.S. Cyber Command conducted "more than two dozen" operations to counter foreign attempts to interfere with or influence the 2020 elections, General Paul Nakasone, who leads both the military's cyber arm and the National Security Agency (NSA), told a Senate panel on Thursday.  

The disclosure was a rare, if still opaque, look into Cyber Command's involvement in government-wide efforts to protect the 2020 presidential election, which the U.S. intelligence community has said was targeted by multiple foreign actors, including Russia, Iran, China and others.   An assessment issued earlier this month by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said there were "no indications" that any U.S. voting processes were altered in 2020 by any foreign nation, though several adversaries engaged in influence campaigns in apparent attempts to sway the election outcome.