Political attacks
Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2025 8:15 am
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Politically motivated attacks have been common in Russia since 2012, when dozens of cyberattacks on media sites were recorded during the election campaign and elections.
The presidential elections held in March 2018 were no exception . According to Nikolai Murashov, Deputy Director of the National Coordination Center for Computer Incidents of the Russian FSB, an jamaica whatsapp data was carried out from at least 20,000 sources (apparently, a botnet of 20,000 nodes. — Author's note ), aimed at disrupting the operation of the video surveillance system for the elections. The expert also mentioned attacks on the Russian presidential hotline (it is unclear on which system. — Author's note ).
Another round of cyber attacks is expected during the 2019 single voting day, so government agencies and election commissions need to prepare now.
Political issues
In the fall of 2018, Kommersant journalists looked at the desktops of public computers in Moscow MFCs and found a lot of personal data of citizens on them - passports, SNILS, etc. From a rational point of view, the desktops contained what the citizens themselves had placed there - so it was their problem, the MFCs had nothing to do with it. However, from the point of view of caring for citizens, it would be possible to launch a simple script and clean the desktops daily; computer clubs had already reached this practice 20 years ago. However, the noise around this story was symptomatic; the My Documents structure, which unites the Moscow MFCs, even issued a refutation.
Politically motivated attacks have been common in Russia since 2012, when dozens of cyberattacks on media sites were recorded during the election campaign and elections.
The presidential elections held in March 2018 were no exception . According to Nikolai Murashov, Deputy Director of the National Coordination Center for Computer Incidents of the Russian FSB, an jamaica whatsapp data was carried out from at least 20,000 sources (apparently, a botnet of 20,000 nodes. — Author's note ), aimed at disrupting the operation of the video surveillance system for the elections. The expert also mentioned attacks on the Russian presidential hotline (it is unclear on which system. — Author's note ).
Another round of cyber attacks is expected during the 2019 single voting day, so government agencies and election commissions need to prepare now.
Political issues
In the fall of 2018, Kommersant journalists looked at the desktops of public computers in Moscow MFCs and found a lot of personal data of citizens on them - passports, SNILS, etc. From a rational point of view, the desktops contained what the citizens themselves had placed there - so it was their problem, the MFCs had nothing to do with it. However, from the point of view of caring for citizens, it would be possible to launch a simple script and clean the desktops daily; computer clubs had already reached this practice 20 years ago. However, the noise around this story was symptomatic; the My Documents structure, which unites the Moscow MFCs, even issued a refutation.