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Romanian elections targeted with cyberattacks by foreign state-sponsored actors
A report from the country’s intelligence service revealed tens of thousands of attacks during the first round of presidential elections and raised concerns about the upcoming runoff election.
The Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI), which operates the National Cyberint Center tasked with detecting and blocking cyberattacks against critical infrastructure, attributed the campaign targeting websites and servers supporting the electoral process to a potential state-sponsored threat actor with a high degree of confidence. The presidential runoff is scheduled for Sunday amid concerns that the leading candidate, far-right ultranationalist Calin Georgescu — a NATO and EU critic and admirer of Russian President Vladimir Putin — benefited from a massive influence campaign on TikTok. The TikTok campaign amplified Georgescu’s populist, religious, and nationalist messaging, catapulting him from low single-digit support in polls weeks before the election to the leading position in the first round, receiving 23% of the vote.
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