Federal authorities were cautiously optimistic early Wednesday about having made it through voting season without major disruption by cyberattacks or other malign activity — but they cautioned that could still happen in the coming days.
“We’re not out of the woods yet,” said one senior official with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, who briefed reporters with other U.S. officials on the condition they not be identified.
All the same, officials said, Election Day appeared to have been “just another Tuesday on the internet” and the nation seemed to have cleared some of its biggest milestones in the campaign as normally as practical.
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