Russia’s electoral chief said Sunday that there had been over 1,000 waves of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks targeting Russian election infrastructure in recent days.
DDoS attacks involve overwhelming a system with internet traffic so that it is unable to function normally.
“Over the past period, more than 1,000 waves of DDoS attacks have been recorded against infrastructure in Russia that is specifically involved in the electoral process,” the chair of Russia’s Central Election Commission, Ella Pamfilova, was quoted as saying by Russian news agencies.
Parliamentary elections in Russia are taking place amid increasing reliance on digital infrastructure to manage the electoral process, including voter registration, data transmission, and some electronic voting systems. This makes election-related systems and services a potential target for cyberattacks during voting periods.
These reported attacks come at a time when Russia is experiencing a surge in cyber activity linked to the war in Ukraine. Russian authorities have previously reported cyberattacks targeting government institutions and critical infrastructure, accusing entities linked to Ukraine or Western countries of being behind some of these attacks, while Kyiv denies or has not commented on many of these accusations. (AFP+EIR)
