A senior US cybersecurity official said there was no “specific or credible threat” to disrupt election infrastructure during Tuesday’s US midterm elections, Reuters reported.

Election security has become a key issue in the United States after officials revealed that Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election with a campaign of cyberattacks and propaganda aimed at undermining Hillary Clinton’s chances of defeating Donald Trump.

Moreover, the law enforcement officer’s statement came a day after the head of Wagner’s mercenary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, admitted for the first time on Monday that he tried to influence the US election, saying he would continue to do so.

“I interfered in the elections [din Statele Unite], we continue to intervene and will continue to do so in the future. Neatly, neatly, surgically and in our own way, because we know what to do,” said the one who is called “Putin’s cook”, in the comments of the VKontakte press service of his Concorde catering company.

The White House said they were not surprised by Yevgeny Prigozhin’s comments.

The Cyber ​​Security and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) plans to establish an Election Day Operations Center with public and private sector partners across the country to monitor the election, it said in a statement on Monday.

“In recent years, election officials have had to contend with an increasing amount of disinformation from foreign adversaries, which can cause confusion about the election infrastructure and undermine voter confidence in the process,” Kim Wyman, the agency’s senior election security adviser, said in a recent statement. week.

“Now, when something goes wrong – and with 8,800 electoral jurisdictions across the country, something will go wrong somewhere – the innocuous can be made to look imperfect.”