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(Photo by Manuel Balce Ceneta-Pool\/Getty Images) <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"single-article__content\">\n<div class=\"single-article__content-inner has-drop-cap\"> <html readability=\"88.201694915254\"><body readability=\"177.64921397947\"><\/p>\n<p>Arizona election officials say a hack targeting a statewide <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.azsos.gov\/apps\/election\/candidateportal\/\">online portal for political candidates<\/a> resulted in the defacement and replacement of multiple candidate photos with the late Iranian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.<\/p>\n<p>While officials say the threat is contained and the vulnerability has been fixed, they also blasted the lack of support they\u2019ve received from the federal government, claiming the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is no longer a reliable partner in election security under the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Moore, the chief information security officer for Arizona\u2019s Secretary of State, told CyberScoop that his office first became aware that something odd was happening on June 23, while many officials were at a conference. One user managing the candidate portal noticed that one of the candidate images uploaded to the site didn\u2019t \u201cmake sense\u201d because it appeared to be a picture of Khomeini. The next day they were notified that candidate profiles going back years had also been defaced with the same picture.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy first call was to Arizona\u2019s [Department of] Homeland Security,\u201d Moore said. \u201cWe started troubleshooting, locked down that portion of the site, and started doing preventative measures to reduce our attack surface.\u201d <\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Moore said other important systems, such as the statewide voter registration database and its confidentiality system for domestic abuse survivors, are hosted on servers that are segmented from other parts of the network. He said there is no evidence that the attackers \u201ceven attempted\u201d to access state voter rolls.<\/p>\n<p>Incident responders determined that the attacker was using the candidate portal to upload an image file containing a Base 64-encoded PowerShell script that attempted to take over the server.<\/p>\n<p>Moore described the affected candidate portal as an older, legacy system that wasn\u2019t designed for security. Unlike many other statewide systems, the candidate portal was explicitly created to accept uploads from the public.<\/p>\n<p>Moore likened the situation to \u201ca village that\u2019s surrounded by a castle; we\u2019ve got a moat, we\u2019ve got a drawbridge, we\u2019ve got a portcullis and guards on the walls.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut when our village needs to do business,\u201d he said, \u201cwe have doors and windows that are open and an adversary can just walk through \u2026 masquerading as a legitimate business.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The substance and timing of the hack point to someone with pro-Iranian interests. The incident took place the day after the U.S. bombed Iranian nuclear sites, and a Telegram message linked in the defacement promised revenge against Americans for President Donald Trump\u2019s actions. <\/p>\n<p>Moore said they do not have definitive attribution for the attack at this time.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-a-deteriorating-partnership\"><strong>A deteriorating partnership<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>For years, CISA has coordinated election security between states and the federal government, sharing intelligence on vulnerabilities or hacking campaigns, deploying cybersecurity experts, and assisting with active incidents.<\/p>\n<p>Arizona, through its state DHS, contacted multiple federal agencies about the hack, including the FBI. But CISA was not part of that outreach.<\/p>\n<p>In a scathing statement, Secretary of State Adrian Fontes, a Democrat who has long focused on election security, said that this once-fruitful partnership between CISA and states had been damaged as the agency has been \u201cweakened and politicized\u201d under the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUp until 2024, CISA was a strong and reliable partner in our shared mission of securing American digital infrastructure, but since then the agency has been politicized and weakened by the current administration,\u201d Fontes said. <\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Fontes said he personally reached out in a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem months ago in an effort to establish a relationship but was \u201cdismissed outright.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiven their recent conduct, and broader trends at the federal level, we\u2019ve lost confidence in [CISA\u2019s] capacity to collaborate in good faith or to prioritize national security over political theater,\u201d he continued. \u201cThis is exactly the kind of division that foreign adversaries of Russia, China and Iran seek to exploit. Cybersecurity should never be a partisan issue. When trust breaks down between levels of government, we put our democratic system at risk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since being sworn into power, President Donald Trump and his administration have taken an axe to CISA\u2019s budget and workforce, eliminated regional offices, fired disinformation experts, and drastically reduced the agency\u2019s once-robust support for securing state elections. <\/p>\n<p>Moore doubled down on Fontes\u2019 sentiments, telling CyberScoop \u201cit was easy and natural to work with CISA until 2024.\u201d Under previous administrations he had a litany of CISA employees on speed dial, but \u201cright now, in 2025, we have no [federal] cybersecurity advisors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will occasionally communicate with CISA at a regional level, but we don\u2019t have that direct level of support\u201d we used to, he said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Outside of elections, he referenced the <a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/microsoft-sharepoint-zero-day-attack-spree\/\">massive SharePoint vulnerability<\/a> disclosed by Microsoft over the weekend as a prime example of CISA\u2019s diminished capacity and willingness to coordinate national responses to major cyber threats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re effectively trying to recreate the federal government,\u201d Moore said. \u201cIn the past, CISA would have led the charge [to coordinate around the SharePoint flaw]. I didn\u2019t get an email from CISA until [Monday] morning warning about the event, and that\u2019s too late. This started on Friday morning and the damage was done by Monday morning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CISA did not respond to CyberScoop\u2019s inquiries about the incident in Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>A former senior DHS official told CyberScoop that \u201cthere does seem to be a loss of confidence among both private sector and state and local governments with regard to CISA\u201d under the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>In particular, the administration change has led to a \u201cdeemphasis of CISA in terms of being the primary federal civilian cyber response agency,\u201d the former official continued. Additionally, the agency does not yet have a Senate-confirmed leader and \u201cthey\u2019ve lost a lot of talent, mostly on the technical side, like engineering and the technical services division that\u2019s hard to replace,\u201d they added.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The official requested anonymity to speak candidly with CyberScoop about their interactions with DHS.<\/p>\n<p>Further, the lack of action from the federal government on other critical matters related to the agency, like <a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/consensus-forms-on-reauthorizing-2015-cyber-info-sharing-law-now-upgrading-it-later\/\">reauthorization of the expiring Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act<\/a>, have \u201cled stakeholders of CISA to question whether or not it is the same agency they could count on six or seven months ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The official said they believe the administration is looking to change perceptions and expectations around CISA\u2019s mission, as Trump, Noem and others have sharply criticized the agency for its election security work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy sense is this is exactly what they wanted, which was a reset of the relationship with CISA and the department, but also how it is perceived and acts in the interagency and beyond,\u201d the official said.\u201cWhen they say focus the core mission on cyber, to me that says programs of record like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cisa.gov\/resources-tools\/programs\/national-cybersecurity-protection-system\/einstein\">EINSTEIN<\/a> and a lot of emphasis on things like [the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cisa.gov\/resources-tools\/programs\/continuous-diagnostics-and-mitigation-cdm-program\">Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation<\/a> program], resetting the relationship on infrastructure protection and providing more targeted resources for assessments, or cyber hygiene related initiatives,\u201d they continued. \u201cThat has yet to make its way through the pipeline, though, and what you have now is kind of a half thought out plan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/body> <\/p>\n<footer class=\"single-article__footer\" readability=\"3.5017793594306\">\n<div class=\"author-card\" readability=\"13\">\n<div class=\"author-card__avatar\">\n<figure class=\"author-card__image-wrap\"> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-card__image\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/after-website-hack-arizona-election-officials-unload-on-trumps-cisa-1.jpg?w=640&ssl=1\" alt=\"Derek B. 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