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| RKN reports 497 DDoS attacks on Russian infrastructure during the elections |
| 2024-03-19 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] During the presidential elections in Russia, hackers carried out almost 500 cyber attacks on the country's information and telecommunications infrastructure. This was reported on March 18 by Roskomnadzor. “During the last elections <...> 497 DDoS attacks were carried out, requiring countermeasures to be taken by the Center for Monitoring and Management of the Public Communications Network of Roskomnadzor,” the department’s press service clarified to TASS. At the same time, the RNC stated that the attacks were carried out simultaneously on all resources of the election infrastructure. The maximum power of the largest attack was 87 Gb/s. The longest cyber attack lasted 40 hours and 12 minutes. As Regnum reported, the Russian presidential elections were held for the first time in a three-day format from March 15 to 17. According to the head of the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation, Ella Pamfilova, since the beginning of voting, 160 thousand attacks on DEG resources have been blocked, the main attacks have been on the voting portal itself - 130 thousand attacks - and the monitoring portal for DEG - almost 30 thousand attacks. Experts unanimously recognized that the provocations and cyber attacks that were recorded in the first two days of voting came from Ukraine, from IP addresses in Western Europe and North America. The head of the department for control and supervision in the field of electronic communications of Roskomnadzor, Evgeny Zaitsev, said on March 17 that DDoS attacks did not have an impact on the voting process in the presidential elections in Russia. He also added that experts blocked more than 1 thousand resources with calls to disrupt the elections, the department noted. The police received 1.4 thousand reports of offenses during the presidential elections in the Russian Federation. Law enforcement officers opened 61 criminal cases for election-related violations, 23 of them for knowingly false reports of terrorist attacks. Also, the Ministry of Internal Affairs throughout the country recorded 52 cases of carrying dyes to polling stations, and opened 33 criminal cases. The turnout at the elections was a record high and amounted to 77.44%. Based on the results of processing 100% of the protocols, Vladimir Putin won with a result of 87.28%. At the same time, according to the Central Election Commission, Putin received an overwhelming number of votes among those eligible to vote in the elections - about 76 million Russians voted for him. As Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov noted, Putin’s final results are unique and reflect the highest level of support for the candidate by the country’s population. The past elections were also marked by a high turnout among Russians abroad. According to data from 199 polling stations on the morning of March 18, more than 372 thousand people voted. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova called these figures unprecedented. |
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