Russia reports thousands of cyberattacks on election infrastructure during vote – The Record from Recorded Future News

Russia reports thousands of cyberattacks on election infrastructure during vote  The Record from Recorded Future News

Claims by officials of cyberattacks against election infrastructure could not be independently verified. Russian officials provided little technical evidence about the attacks or who it claimed who was behind them. Russian authorities said they repelled thousands of cyberattacks targeting online voting systems and other digital infrastructure during the country's three-day parliamentary election. According to Deputy Digital Development Minister Oleg Kachanov, Russia detected and blocked about 2,000 cyberattacks and other attempts to disrupt its federal online voting platform and e-government systems. Kachanov said Sunday that the incidents caused no service disruptions and that Russia’s newly deployed election administration system, Vybory 2.0, continued operating normally. Those claims could not be independently verified, and Russian officials provided little technical evidence about the attacks or who was behind them.

Separate figures, presented during a Central Election Commission (CEC) broadcast, showed that more than 3,000 waves of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks targeted Russian digital infrastructure between the start of voting on Sept. 18 and Sunday evening. According to the commission, the attacks included 135 waves targeting the federal remote voting platform, 16 against the commission’s website and nearly 2,000 against e-government infrastructure. Another 420 targeted infrastructure operated by Russian telecommunications giant Rostelecom. CEC Chair Ella Pamfilova said the attacks originated primarily outside Russia and that none had successfully compromised election systems. The Kremlin repeatedly blamed