Russia Reports Mass Cyberattacks Targeting Elections
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welingelichtekringen.nlMOSCOW (ANP/AFP) - Russia reports that large-scale cyberattacks have been carried out in recent days targeting the country's parliamentary elections. Election infrastructure was subjected to more than a thousand waves of so-called DDoS attacks. In a DDoS attack, a system is flooded with...
The attacks were carried out by highly professional and well-coordinated groups that used artificial intelligence tools and came mainly from abroad, the president of the Electoral Commission said.
"More than a thousand DDoS attacks have been recorded against Russian infrastructure involved in the electoral process," said the President of the Electoral Commission, Ella Pamfilova.
Ella Pamfilova, the chairwoman of Russia's Central Election Commission, said on Sunday that more than 1,000 waves of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks had been launched against the country's electoral infrastructure in recent days.
The Russian Electoral Commission reports numerous attempts to destabilize by denial of service for digital infrastructure dedicated to the electoral process The Electoral Commission
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