Election threats are focused on campaign systems, not voting machines

Collection of cybersecurity news: Check Point warns election threats are shifting from voting machines to campaign systems and AI-generated content, prompting industry and government responses (OpenAI safeguards, upcoming House hearing). A Commerce IG audit criticizes NIST’s NVD for mismanagement and a backlog of ~27,000 unprocessed flaws and duplicated work with CISA. CrowdStrike, Google and Shadowserver disrupted the Glassworm botnet that infected open-source projects since early 2025. The FBI alerts U.S. law firms to the Silent Ransom Group’s use of social engineering and in-person visits;