Georgia voter website hit with cyberattack, likely from foreign source: official

The agency of Georgia's caput of authorities said it fended disconnected a cyberattack believed to person travel from a overseas federation intended to paralyze nan battleground state's absentee elector website. 

The caput of state’s cyber squad was alerted to a melodramatic spike successful attempts to entree Georgia’s absentee ballot portal Oct. 14. The portal, which was slowed but not stopped, is nan website wherever voters petition absentee ballots. 

The state's voting systems aren't connected to nan net and were not affected, a spokesperson told Fox News Digital. 

"[The event] had nan hallmarks of a overseas powerfulness aliases a overseas entity moving astatine nan behest of a overseas power," said Gabriel Sterling, nan main operating serviceman for nan caput of state’s office.

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A man fills retired a ballot astatine a voting booth May 17, 2022, successful Mt. Gilead, North Carolina.  (Sean Rayford/Getty Images)

The onslaught was stopped "thanks to robust safeguards successful place," nan office's spokesperson said. 

Fox News Digital has reached retired to nan tech firm Cloudflare, which aides nan state's cyber defense capabilities, and nan FBI. 

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) referred questions to Georgia officials.

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Gabriel Sterling, main operating serviceman successful nan agency of nan Georgia caput of state, speaks during a news convention astatine nan State Capitol Oct. 23, 2024, successful Atlanta.  (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

The incident came arsenic officials person warned of election-related cyberattacks that see nan targeting of governmental campaigns and predetermination offices. 

U.S. adversaries for illustration Russia, China and Iran person tried to undermine nan antiauthoritarian process done a assortment of cyber tactics, Microsoft said successful a study released Wednesday.

Russia remains focused connected nan Harris-Walz campaign, while Iran has scouted election-related websites and media outlets, suggesting preparations for much nonstop power operations arsenic Election Day nears, nan study said. 

Chester County, Pa., predetermination workers process mail-in and absentee ballots astatine West Chester University successful West Chester Nov. 4, 2020. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File)

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"The actors' history of predetermination interference and their shape of cyber-influence operations underscores nan persistent threat they pose," nan study states.