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Russia arrests hacker accused of preventing electronic voting during local election

Posted on October 30, 2024 by Dissent

Funny how Russia doesn’t like it when someone interferes with their elections, huh? Daryna Antoniuk reports:

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) announced that it had detained a Moscow resident for conducting distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks during local elections in September, targeting infrastructure in the capital and the Moscow region.

According to the agency’s press service, the 61-year-old suspect used Ukraine-made software to carry out the DDoS attacks on Russia’s critical information infrastructure. His activity coincided with the regional parliamentary and municipal elections.

The FSB reported that the hacker had installed Ukrainian software on his personal device and attacked, among others, the IP addresses of an internet provider in the Moscow region. The attack disrupted the provider’s systems, “preventing the company from providing internet access to customers and hindering voters from participating in remote electronic voting,” the agency said.

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