An official with the Georgia secretary of state’s office said it stopped a cyberattack last week that targeted its absentee ballot website.
The office of Georgia's secretary of state said it fended off a cyberattack believed to have come from a foreign nation intended to paralyze the battleground state's absentee voter website. The secretary of state’s cyber team was alerted to a dramatic spike in attempts to access Georgia’s absentee ballot portal Oct. 14. The portal, which was slowed but not stopped, is the website where voters request absentee ballots.
The attack was stopped 'thanks to robust safeguards in place,' the office's spokesperson said. Fox News Digital has reached out to the tech firm Cloudflare, which aides the state's cyber defense capabilities, and the FBI. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency referred questions to Georgia officials.
The incident came as officials have warned of election-related cyberattacks that include the targeting of political campaigns and election offices. U.S. adversaries like Russia, China and Iran have tried to undermine the democratic process through a variety of cyber tactics, Microsoft said in a report released Wednesday.
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