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Russian election authorities have said that about 160,000 cyberattacks on the country’s remote electronic voting resources were blocked.
Ella Pamfilova, head of the Russian Central Election Commission, was quoted by the Xinhua news agency on Saturday as claiming that 30,000 attacks were conducted against the monitoring portal for the remote electronic voting system, with the majority of the attacks being aimed against the voting portal.
Pamfilova reported that on Saturday, there was a notable surge in cyberattack activity compared to Friday, but ultimately, it was unsuccessful.
The head of Moscow’s Public Headquarters for Election Observation, Vadim Kovalev, stated on Saturday that the US and the UK were responsible for cyberattacks on Moscow’s information networks.
“We see that most of the servers where the attacks come from are located in the US and the UK, at least it is the way they are detected,” Kovalev said.
The voting for Russia’s eighth presidential election started on March 15 and will conclude on March 17. Remote electronic voting is introduced to parts of the country for the first time.
