Romanian security reveals hidden force behind unexpected election results
Romanian officials found proof of large-scale digital interference during presidential elections. Security documents show over 85000 cyber-attacks and social-media manipulation targeting election process
Romanian security council shared secret files this week showing how their election process got hit by outside digital attacks. The files came out just before this sundays final voting round
The presidential race has an unexpected twist — Calin Georgescu‚ who wants Romania to stop helping Ukraine and leave NATO got way more votes than anyone thought he would in last months first round. Now heʼs going head-to-head with pro-EU candidate Elena Lasconi (who wants to keep strong ties with western allies)
Intelligence experts found some weird stuff: Georgescuʼs TikTok presence exploded through paid-for posts and special algorithms; though he says he didnt spend any money on campaign stuff. They also spotted hackers putting Romanian election website login-info on Russian crime forums: these bad actors probably tricked real users or found a back-door through training servers
- Over 85‚000 cyber-attacks tried to break into voting systems
- Hackers kept going even during vote counting
- Attack patterns looked like they came from a big state-backed group
The security team thinks its not just random hackers — the whole thing looks too big and too well-planned. Russia says theyʼve got nothing to do with it; but the attacks dont stop even now
