Russia says cyberattacks had no impact on presidential election

Cyberattacks targeting Russia failed to have an impact on the country’s elections, Russia’s internet watchdog said, after officials warned of “massive” efforts to disrupt the presidential vote.  According to Evgeny Zaitsev, the head of digital control and supervision at Roskomnadzor, the watchdog agency recorded a “significant number” of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on the

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