Russia reports online attacks on electoral system on second day of parliamentary vote
Ella Pamfilova said election infrastructure faced more than 1,000 DDoS waves as officials reported a thwarted sabotage attempt on communication lines.
- Anonymous hacker group CikLeak breached the Central Election Commission's GAS Elections 2.0 system and contractor Tsifrotekh, publishing internal documents and source code during Russia's ongoing three-day parliamentary election running through Sunday.
- In August, CEC head Ella Pamfilova insisted the system remained "maximally secure," but independent outlet Important Stories verified the leaked documents' authenticity, directly contradicting official claims that the platform was impenetrable.
- Authorities reported "powerful" cyberattacks against voting systems and communication lines throughout the weekend; simultaneously, terminals at several Moscow polling stations malfunctioned, displaying "voter not found" messages and disrupting in-person electronic voting.
- Balloting includes the occupied territories of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia, where authorities claim over 3.5 million voters reside; Kyiv and international observers condemn the process as an illegal attempt to solidify Kremlin control.
- The three-day election ending Sunday is expected to return the ruling United Russia party to power in the 450-seat State Duma, with the Kremlin likely viewing the result as evidence of public support for the war.
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Russia's Election Commission has announced that it has recorded "over a thousand cyber attacks aimed at disrupting parliamentary elections," reports AFP, taken over by News.ro.
RUSSIA'S Central Election Commission announced today that it had recorded more than a thousand cyberattacks aimed at disrupting parliamentary elections.
DDoS attacks involve overloading a system with internet traffic, causing it to be unable to function normally.
Russia denounced more than 1,000 cyberattacks against its electoral infrastructure as the country holds its first parliamentary elections since the beginning of the war in Ukraine.
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