OS: more than 4.6 million cyber attacks were repelled by the Moscow electronic voting system

This is stated in the Telegram channel of the Public Headquarters for Observing Elections in Moscow.

In addition, cyber attacks were aimed at the infrastructure of the Public Headquarters for Monitoring the Presidential Elections.

Within three days, information security tools blocked almost 1.3 million requests to headquarters systems with suspected malicious activity.

“Some of the attacks were carried out from botnet networks, and a large number of direct attacks were also recorded,” the report says.

According to the deputy head of the Public Headquarters for Observing Elections in Moscow, Ilya Massukh, all attacks were successfully repelled by cybersecurity means.

He emphasized that the cyberattacks did not affect the voting process.

Earlier, the chairman of the Territorial Election Commission DEG (TEC DEG) Oleg Artamonov said that the turnout in remote electronic voting in the presidential elections in Russia was 94%, which is an absolute record in the world.