From a blue team perspective, the Democratic National Committee $($DNC$)$ hack of $2016$ had an impact during a very critical time of the $2016$ election and involved sharing data with Wikileaks in an effort to disrupt the US election process. Politics aside, this is a very interesting case to discover the malware used and the clues left behind for the blue team.

Students should:

Listen to the Fidelis podcast regarding the DNC hackLinks to an external site.

React to how the blue team could have handled this better

Research on measures the US has taken as a lesson learned from this to better fortify our election cycle