Mozambique Elections: Election data ‘safe’ despite cyber-attack – Watch

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Mozambique Elections: Election data ‘safe’ despite cyber-attack – Watch

2:34 CAT | 30 Sep 2024

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Mozambique’s National ElectoralCommission (CNE) said on Monday that the cyberattack on its pages had not compromised the institution’s data, which is “safe.”

“We wanted to take this opportunity to inform you, with deep sadness, that last Saturday we noticed that the CNE’s web pages were the target of a cyber attack by malicious people,” said the spokesman for the electoral body, Paulo Cuinica.

Cuinica was speaking during a press conference on the state of play of the preparations for the general elections on 9 October, whose campaign ends next Sunday, and acknowledged that “the consequences of the attack have yet to be determined”.

“The electoral bodies have already regained control. We are working to strengthen the security mechanisms to prevent further invasions,” said the CNE spokesman.

Paulo Cuinica said that when the cyber-attack was aborted, the authors of the attack tried to create a link using the symbols of the electoral bodies so that they could pass on malicious information.

“Both the electoral bodies” website and the information it contains are safe and we managed to remove the link created by the criminals,” said Cuinica.

READ: Mozambique Elections: CNE bolsters cyber security following attack

Mozambique is holding its seventh presidential elections on 9 October, in which the current head of state, Filipe Nyusi, who has reached the constitutional limit of two terms, is no longer running, at the same time as the seventh legislative elections and the fourth for provincial assemblies and governors.

According to data from the National Electoral Commission, more than 17 million voters are registered to vote, including 333,839 registered abroad.

Running for president are Daniel Chapo, supported by the ruling Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (Frelimo), Ossufo Momade, supported by the Mozambican National Resistance (Renamo), the largest opposition party, Lutero Simango, supported by the Democratic Movement of Mozambique (MDM), the third most represented party in parliament, and Venâncio Mondlane, a former Renamo member and MP, supported by the Optimistic Party for the Development of Mozambique (Podemos), a movement without parliamentary representation.