Russia reports more than 90,000 computer attacks against its electoral infrastructure during Friday

Authorities point to "Ukraine, Western Europe and North America" ​​as the origin of the attacks

MADRID, 16 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) -

Russian authorities have reported that their electoral infrastructure has been the subject of approximately 90,000 computer attacks during Friday alone, the first day of voting in the presidential elections that will end next Sunday.

The vice president of the Information Security department of the Russian telecommunications operator Rostelecom, Igor Liapunov, has indicated that these attacks have taken place "from IP addresses located in Ukraine, Western Europe and North America."

These attacks targeted the resources of "the electoral portals and the Electoral Commission itself", as well as the electronic voting platform DEG, which was used, for example, this past Friday by the Russian president and absolute favorite, Vladimir Putin, to cast his ballot. virtual.

Among other attacks, Liapunov has denounced the one that occurred shortly after noon on Friday against the electronic voting system, a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that ended up slowing down the system by receiving, at its peak, more than two million false requests per second, according to statements collected by the Tass agency.

Also in the last few hours, the United Russia party, the dominant party in the country's politics, has reported a "large-scale computer attack on all its electronic services," according to the group's Telegram channel.

United Russia has explained that, to ensure the functioning of the critical infrastructure of its digital services, it has had to suspend a series of "secondary resources."

The party, however, assures that most of these attacks have been repelled with the intervention of the Federal Telecommunications Supervision Agency, Roskomnadzor.