{"id":49674,"date":"2021-09-17T16:20:27","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T13:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=49674"},"modified":"2025-09-02T13:51:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T10:51:37","slug":"russias-central-election-commission-reports-ddos-attacks-during-remote-voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/russias-central-election-commission-reports-ddos-attacks-during-remote-voting\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia&#8217;s Central Election Commission reports DDoS attacks during remote voting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DDoS attacks on remote electronic voting systems (DEG) based on blockchain used in the State Duma elections are \u201coff the charts.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=THlNxt2yiZg&#038;ab_channel=%D0%A6%D0%98%D0%9A%D0%A0%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%B8\">\u0437\u0430\u044f\u0432\u0438\u043b\u0430<\/a> \u0433\u043b\u0430\u0432\u0430 \u0426\u0435\u043d\u0442\u0440\u0438\u0437\u0431\u0438\u0440\u043a\u043e\u043c\u0430 \u042d\u043b\u043b\u0430 \u041f\u0430\u043c\u0444\u0438\u043b\u043e\u0432\u0430.<\/p>\n<p>According to her, half of the attacks on the Gosuslugi portal originate from the United States, as well as from Germany, Russia, China, and Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Hackers are also attacking the site vybory.gov.ru, Pamfilova said:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u00abIf you look at the distribution by country \u2014 50% of attacks from the USA, from Germany \u2014 25%, from Korea \u2014 20%, from China \u2014 5%\u00bb.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Ministry of Digital Development <a href=\"https:\/\/digital.gov.ru\/ru\/events\/41275\/\">recorded<\/a> two DDoS attacks during the DEG \u2014 one targeted vybory.gov.ru, the other targeted the Gosuslugi site.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cThe attacks were planned and organized, indicating an intention to deliberately hinder the normal operation of the services and to block the work of electronic voting services,\u201d \u2014 said the Ministry of Digital Development.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The agency stressed that all DDoS attacks were repelled.<\/p>\n<p>The Moscow election monitoring headquarters said the hackers&#8217; actions led to delays in the online-voting monitoring service, causing data to be updated with a delay, but this did not affect their recording on the blockchain.<\/p>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/telegram.org\/js\/telegram-widget.js?15\" data-telegram-post=\"OPMShtabOfficial\/622\" data-width=\"100%\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Last year, during Moscow&#8217;s municipal elections, the blockchain system <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/media-moscows-blockchain-voting-system-published-distorted-data-for-about-16-hours\">showed failures<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the current State Duma elections, blockchain-based systems are used in Moscow, Sevastopol, Kursk, Nizhny Novgorod, Yaroslavl, Murmansk and Rostov regions. In the capital, voting is conducted on a platform developed by the city government; in other regions, on the Central Election Commission&#8217;s system.<\/p>\n<p>Oleg Artamonov, deputy chairman of the DEG territorial election commission, confirmed the attacks in a conversation with ForkLog:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cThey originated from distributed networks (botnets) from territories of different countries, with the power of the attacks reaching up to 20 Mpps \u2014 noticeable, but still far below what security mechanisms can handle.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier, the blockchain system built by Moscow\u2019s Department of Information Technology was used in elections for the Moscow City Duma and for the vote on constitutional amendments. In both cases it failed.<\/p>\n<p>The blockchain system, <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/blockchain-based-voting-system-from-rostelecom-and-waves-enterprise-to-be-deployed-for-elections\">developed<\/a> by Rostelecom in collaboration with Waves Enterprise. In 2020, it <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/rostelecoms-blockchain-voting-system-tested-by-30000-people\">was tested by 30,000 people<\/a>, the CEC reported.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DDoS attacks on remote electronic voting systems (DEG) based on blockchain used in the State Duma elections are \u201coff the charts.\u201d said Ella Pamfilova, head of the Central Election Commission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[25,1772,27,785],"class_list":["post-49674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-blockchain","tag-ddos-attacks","tag-russia","tag-voting"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"25","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49676,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49674\/revisions\/49676"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}