Dutch political websites hit by cyber attacks as EU voting starts
Jun 6, 2024João Tomé
Summary
This post details Cloudflare's mitigation of significant DDoS attacks targeting Dutch political websites during the European Parliament election. It quantifies attack volumes (billions of HTTP requests, tens of thousands of requests per second) and provides specific peak times and durations for two distinct attacks. It also contextualizes these attacks within broader geopolitical events and links to relevant resources for DDoS defense and election insights.
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