The Georgia Secretary of State's Office successfully thwarted a cyberattack targeting its absentee ballot website, believed to originate from a foreign entity, potentially ahead of the November 5 presidential election. The attack involved flooding the site with malicious traffic from hundreds of thousands of IP addresses worldwide, but it did not disrupt voters' ability to request absentee ballots. Gabriel Sterling, COO of the Georgia Secretary of State's Office, noted that the attack bore the 'hallmarks of a foreign power,' although US officials have not confirmed the source. The defense was bolstered by Cloudflare, a cybersecurity firm, which helped detect and mitigate the attack quickly. The incident comes amid heightened concerns about election-related cyber threats, highlighting the ongoing risks faced by election infrastructure. Despite the attack, early voting in Georgia has seen record turnout, more than doubling early voting figures from 2020.