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Romania's election results annulled after systems saw over 85,000 cyberattacks | A twisted saga of leaked credentials and paid influencers


It's been a wild ride for democracy in Romania lately. A declassified report from the country's Intelligence Service reveals that this year's presidential elections were targeted by...

A separate declassified Romanian intel report states that officials uncovered evidence of a coordinated Russian influence campaign on TikTok. Some of the suspected TikTok accounts used for the campaign were years old but had been largely inactive until mid-November, when they suddenly kicked into high gear promoting Georgescu. The Intelligence Service connected the dots back to Russia, noting textual overlaps between the Georgescu messaging and a similar Russian-backed campaign in Moldova.

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