Павел Либер. "Новая Беларусь".
DDoS attacks on the platform used for the Coordination Council election may have cost up to €200,000. This was stated by Pavel Liber, who was responsible for the platform’s technical infrastructure.
“We held out, although I would estimate the cost of attacks at this scale closer to €100,000+, and if they paid for all the traffic at average market rates, it could have reached €200,000+,” he wrote.
According to him, the platform was available 95.2% of the time. A total of 73 people were unable to vote because of the attacks. Overall, 2,113 voters took part in the election.
A total of 64 people contacted technical support, of whom 36 later reported that they had managed to vote.
“We received just over 24 billion requests and 68 TB of traffic in the form of DDoS attacks.
A separate attack (hundreds of TB) targeted a Google Storage bucket, where the bucket limits across all regions were repeatedly exhausted over several days, forcing us to change the voting website.
Unfortunately, these elections demonstrated a new digital reality in which the regime can generate truly significant pressure, and when for seven days, day and night, the entire team has to keep the infrastructure running under continuous attacks, attempts to exploit protocols and information operations,” he added.
Pavel Liber also noted an increase in technical sophistication and warned that “civil society should seriously reconsider digital security once again.”