The Georgia Secretary of State’s office has successfully prevented a cyberattack, believed to be launched by a foreign entity, from targeting the voter absentee ballot request website.
The attackers sought to crash the system in advance of the November 5 presidential election, but despite the effort to flood the site with malicious traffic, the ability of voters to request absentee ballots remained unaffected, said Gabriel Sterling, a senior official in the office.
According to CNN, Sterling remarked that the attack bore "the hallmarks of a foreign power or an entity acting on behalf of a foreign power," though U.S. officials have not yet publicly confirmed the attack's origin.