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Credit to Author: Michael Kan| Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2017 13:16:00 -0700<\/strong><\/p>\n Future U.S. elections may very well face more Russian attempts to interfere with the outcome, the FBI and the National Security Agency warned on Monday. <\/p>\n \u201cThey\u2019ll be back,\u201d said FBI director James Comey. \u201cThey\u2019ll be back in 2020. They may be back in 2018.\u201d <\/p>\n Comey made the comment during a congressional hearing<\/a> on Russia\u2019s suspected efforts to meddle with last year\u2019s presidential election. Allegedly, cyberspies from the country hacked several high-profile Democratic groups and people, in an effort to tilt the outcome in President Donald Trump\u2019s favor. <\/p>\n Although Russia has denied<\/a> any involvement, the FBI expects the country to strike again. <\/p>\n \u201cOne of the lessons they [Russia] may draw from this is they were successful,\u201d Comey said. \u201cBecause they introduced chaos and division and discord.\u201d <\/p>\n NSA director Michael Rogers agreed: \u201cI fully expect them to continue this level of activity.\u201d <\/p>\n Both the FBI and NSA are working with their counterparts in Europe to help stop similar election-tampering efforts allegedly from Russia, Rogers said. <\/p>\n France and Germany are two countries about to hold their own elections, he noted. <\/p>\n \u201cDisinformation, fake news, attempts to release information to embarrass individuals. You\u2019re seeing that play out to some extent in European elections right now,\u201d Rogers said. <\/p>\n Back in December, a German intelligence agency accused<\/a> Russia of ramping up online propaganda and hacking efforts to influence politics in the country. \u00a0 <\/p>\n The tactics have included spear phishing<\/a> email attempts against German political parties that appear to resemble those carried out by Russian cyberspies during the U.S. presidential campaign, the agency said. <\/p>\n In February, Norway also said spear phishing attacks had targeted email accounts belonging to political officials in the country — those, too, similar to tactics used by a suspected Russian hacking group. <\/p>\n In response, some are urging<\/a> NATO to fight back. \u201cRussia is clearly testing NATO and the West,\u201d U.K. Defense Secretary Michael Fallon said last month. <\/p>\n In the U.S., lawmakers have launched investigations into Russia\u2019s suspected role in influencing last year\u2019s election. <\/p>\n