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| 200 hacker attacks repelled in Moscow over two days of elections |
| 2024-09-08 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] Two hundred cyber attacks have been repelled following two days of voting in the Moscow elections. The online voting system is operating normally. This was reported to journalists on September 7 by Alexander Asafov, Deputy Head of the Public Headquarters for Election Observation in Moscow. At the Public Headquarters for Election Observation in Moscow As Asafov clarified, no anomalies in remote electronic voting have been observed; the system is operating normally, despite cyberattacks. "Observers, accordingly, monitor all stages of voting, the system operates normally, despite the fact that, of course, attacks are being undertaken. And technical specialists reported that 200 computer attacks were blocked," Asafov noted and added that malicious activity was observed from more than 2.7 thousand IP addresses. According to Asafov, with the help of cyberattacks, IT specialists are trying to find vulnerabilities in the electronic voting system, which is protected from standard hacker attacks on its nodes thanks to preliminary testing and technical work. Earlier, Regnum News Agency reported that over two days of elections for Moscow City Duma deputies, more than 2.6 million people voted in Moscow. Of these, over 2.3 million people used the online voting system. Elections in Moscow will be held on September 6, 7 and 8, 2024. City residents will elect deputies of the Moscow City Duma of the eighth convocation, municipal deputies in eight municipal districts of TiNAO (Bekasovo, Voronovo and Krasnopakhorsky, Vnukovskoye, Kommunarka, Filimonkovsky, Shcherbinka and the urban district of Troitsk) and in the municipal district of Kurkino. |
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