Media coverage

In the run-up to the 2020 U.S. elections, with reports of possible hacking and disinformation campaigns on everyone’s mind, it was easy to have missed a rare press release issued by the National Security Agency (NSA)—a part of the federal government not known for making significant public announcements. While it’s still unusual for the NSA to publicly list a series of vulnerabilities that are actively exploited by nation-state threat actors, the agency has been taking on a more public-facing role when it comes to cybersecurity.