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The CEC reported that during the first day of voting, targeted computer attacks on the department’s resources were recorded. All of them came from abroad.
“For September 17, we recorded three targeted attacks from abroad,” Alexander Sokolchuk, head of the Federal Center for Informatization (FCI) at the Central Election Commission of Russia, said at a briefing today.
At the same time, he did not name the countries from where the attack was carried out, noting that due to technical issues, this is a controversial issue.
According to him, unknown hackers tried to identify the vulnerability of the Internet portal of the CEC of Russia.
“I want to say that the attack was quite powerful,” he added.
Also, according to Sokolchuk, at 11:30 on Saturday, a DDoS attack was also committed and about 246 thousand requests were blocked by means of protection on the portal of the CEC of Russia. He ruled out that the main attack will be carried out on Sunday.