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Russia reports thousands of cyberattacks on election infrastructure during vote

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"Voting took place between September 18 and Sunday evening Russia reports thousands of cyberattacks on election infrastructure during vote 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..."

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Voting took place between September 18 and Sunday evening

Russia reports thousands of cyberattacks on election infrastructure during vote

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.

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