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A group of Russian hackers attacked several Romanian government and presidential candidate websites on Sunday, as the country votes for its next president, Romanian news agency G4media reported.
The attack, by the group known as DDOSIA/NoName057, hit the website of the Romanian Constitutional Court, the main government portal, the website of the Romanian foreign ministry and the websites of four presidential candidates.
The candidate websites attacked included Crin Antonescu, who is supported by Romania's ruling parties, and Bucharest Mayor Nicușor Dan, who is running as an independent, according to a list provided by the National Cybersecurity Directorate, G4media reported.
The Cybersecurity Directorate did not immediately respond to a request for more information.
The hackers claimed responsibility for the cyberattack on their Telegram channel, listing the websites of the ministries of Internal Affairs and Justice among the targets, Romanian TV channel Digi24 reported.
The attack was carried out through the distributed denial of service (DDoS) method, which overloads the target with a flood of internet traffic.
The Cybersecurity Directorate said all websites listed by the hacker group were operational as of 2:00 p.m. local time, adding a reference to Star Wars: "May the Force be with you," according to a Facebook post.
The attack occurred as Romanians were voting in the first round of a presidential election rerun. The country's Supreme Court annulled the initial round last year due to allegations of illegal campaigning by the winner of that round, little-known ultranationalist Călin Georgescu, and possible Russian influence.
According to declassified Romanian intelligence documents, there were more than 85,000 cyberattacks against Romania's election information technology system on election day last November and afterwards.
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