[Regnum] The website of the Lugansk Information Center has been under a powerful DDoS attack for several hours now. Experts call it the strongest in the agency’s almost 10-year history. This was reported in the Telegram channel LuganskInformCenter Z.
Users were warned that due to the attack, access to the resource for many is still limited or completely impossible.
“The agency’s technical specialists are taking all necessary measures to correct the situation and restore access to the site,” management assured.
At the same time, the agency’s editorial staff continues its work and will promptly inform readers about the progress of the presidential elections in the Russian Federation and other events in the Lugansk People’s Republic in the Telegram channel, as well as on the VKontakte page.
As Regnum reported, the largest number of attacks on the Moscow system of remote electronic voting (DEG) come from the USA and Great Britain, said on March 16, the head of the Public Headquarters for monitoring the elections in Moscow in 2024, Vadim Kovalev.
The head of the Central Election Commission (CEC) Ella Pamfilova explained that since the beginning of voting in the Russian presidential elections, the remote electronic voting system (DEG) has been subject to 160 thousand DDoS attacks. The main attacks were on the voting portal itself - 130 thousand attacks, almost 30 thousand attacks on the DEG monitoring portal. During the same period, the Central Election Commission website was subject to 18 thousand hacker attacks, 141 of which were high-risk attacks, Pamfilova noted.
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