“Experts from DIT Moscow managed to repel more than 100 DDoS attacks on the online voting monitoring service.

Because of these attacks, the statistics on electronic voting were loaded into the service with a delay, but the display of the recording process took place in accordance with the time of their actual recording in the blockchain, ”the Mosgorizbirkom said in its Telegram message.

It is noted that the work of the online voting system is constantly monitored by specialists and members of election commissions for remote electronic voting.

Earlier, the head of the CEC, Ella Pamfilova, announced serious attacks on online voting services, half of which were carried out from the United States. 

The ministry stressed that these DDoS attacks were successfully repelled and did not affect the functioning of the remote electronic voting platform, which is being carried out in seven constituent entities of the Russian Federation.