UPDATE: Mississippi Hit With Mysterious CYBER ATTACK

Officials from the state of Mississippi are now confirming that they were, in fact, hit with a cyber-attack on Tuesday.

The attack hit the public-facing side of their election websites and came in the form of DDoS spoofing—a technique in which hackers ping an address or a server so many times that it creates congestion, errors, and ultimately, downtime.

Users were unable to access the websites for a brief period.

It is not yet known exactly where the attack originated from or who is responsible for the attack, although some left-leaning outlets are already blaming the dreaded Russian hackers.

Currently, we are being told that this attack did not affect actual voting procedures or compromise voting systems—only the websites themselves.

Mississippi Secretary Michael Watson announced:

Having a strong Secretary of State’s office that understands the importance of maintaining the integrity of our election system matters. To my team, well done! Proud of our hard work today. (2/2)

MS 1, Russia 0

— Secretary Michael Watson (@MichaelWatsonMS) November 9, 2022

One day following the Election Day cyberattack against the secretary of state's website, Mississippi opened its new cyber security center at MGCCC in Gulfport. pic.twitter.com/T3Oisbjv4l

— Amber Spradley (@amberspradley) November 10, 2022

According to The Epoch Times:

In an interview with WAPT16, Watson said the hackers were generating multiple addresses to attack the system to slow it down, preventing Mississippians from being able to access the website.

When asked if he knew who is behind it, he said, “We saw some reports initially that a pro-Russian group was claiming credit for this attack. I’m not exactly sure if that was them or not.”

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The Mississippi Secretary of State confirmed an Election Day cyber attack that overwhelmed its servers, causing the public facing side of state websites to be periodically inaccessible.

The election system was not compromised.https://t.co/Tm5aX3ooza

— Fair Count (@faircount) November 10, 2022

Did ya'll know Mississippi had a cyberattack yesterday on polling locations?

Did you know that the SOS here also don't know what the hell is going on in local polling location changes?

— Sailor Michael⚓✈ (@Megawatts55) November 9, 2022

The Hill adds:

During a background call to reporters on Tuesday, CISA said that it was aware of a “handful” of distributed denial of service attacks that briefly impacted a number of state election websites but wouldn’t specify how many were affected.

public-facingHowever, a CISA official said not every cyberattack that targeted state election websites on Tuesday was successful, and those sites that were affected were quickly restored.