Moldova Central Electoral Commission / election infrastructure
September 27, 2025
•[ DDoS, election interference, cyberattack ]
During Moldovas 2025 parliamentary election, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks targeted the Central Electoral Commissions public websites, briefly disrupting access for several hours with peaks around 400 Gbps. Officials accused Russian-aligned actors of interference, but attribution remains unconfirmed. Voting systems were unaffected.
Government of Romania
May 5, 2025
•[ ddos, hacktivism, election interference ]
Russia-aligned hacktivists claimed DDoS attacks on Romanian state and candidate websites on election day, temporarily knocking portals offline before restoration.
Ministry of Defence of Ukraine – Anti-Corruption Council election system
January 7, 2025
•[ DDoS attack, election interference, distributed denial-of-service ]
DDoS attack on Ukraines MoD online election for its Anti-Corruption Council. Over 1.1 million malicious requests blocked, including 300k from Belarus IPs. Attack attempted to disrupt voting but was contained the same day, and election integrity was maintained with ~101k Ukrainians successfully voting.
Moldova’s parliamentary email servers
October 17, 2024
•[ cyberattack, email security, election interference ]
Moldovas parliamentary email servers are hit by a cyberattack just ahead of the countrys presidential election and a referendum on joining the European Union.
