News is breaking that a Mexican campaign site was hit with a DDoS attack during the final presidential debate–just weeks ahead of the July 1 election.
The affected site, run by the National Action Party (PAN), targets front-runner Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, but his party denies any involvement with the outage. The majority of traffic that caused the outage supposedly came from Russia and China, which may or may not correlate with the origin of the attack.
There are currently no clear signs of foreign hacking in Mexican campaigns, but tensions and nerves are high following the U.S. probe into Russia’s 2016 election meddling.
Jeannie Warner, Security Manager at Leading Application Security Provider WhiteHat Security, commented on the trend of DDoS attacks during election periods below.
Jeannie Warner, Security Manager at WhiteHat Security: