Several sites were targeted including voter registration portal, House of the Oireachtas and Transport for Ireland
In some countries, Russia n linked campaigns have been detected encouraging voters to spoil their ballot or boycott the elections entirely. Photograph: iStockwith suspected links to the country’s intelligence service targeted a number of Irish websites in the run up to theIreland was one of a number of EU countries targeted last week. Sources said the attacks originated in Russia and were likely an attempt to signal support for Moscow rather than to cause serious harm.
DDOS attacks involve attempting to overwhelm a website by making hundreds or thousands of access requests over a short space of time. They rarely cause lasting damage. Such attacks are “typically low-cost and low-impact, aimed at attracting attention rather than causing significant harm”, it added. “The Netherlands is the first country to vote for a new European Parliament so they’ll be the first to suffer from DDoS attacks,” the group wrote in its Telegram channel last week.EU officials warned previously that cyber attacks and disinformation campaigns were likely to increase in the run-up to the European elections.
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