Romania’s intelligence service in its declassified report disclosed the country’s election systems were hit by over 85,000 cyberattacks. Attackers have also stolen login credentials for election-related sites and posted the information on a Russian hacker forum just before the first presidential election round.
Data leaked on Russian site
The data was likely stolen from attacking authentic users and exploiting legitimate training servers. Russia has denied any involvement in Romania’s election campaign.
The Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI) said, “The attacks continued intensively including on election day and the night after elections. The operating mode and the amplitude of the campaign lead us to conclude the attacker has considerable resources specific to an attacking state.”
About the attack
SRI says the IT infrastructure of Romania’s Permanent Electoral Authority (AEP) was targeted on 19th November. Threat actors disrupted a server containing mapping data (gis.registrulelectoral.ro) that was connected with the public web as well as AEP’s internal network.
After the attack, log in details of Romanian election websites- bec.ro (Central Election Bureau), roaep.ro, and registrulelectoral.ro (vot
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