Helping protect the 2025 Moldova elections
This post details Cloudflare's mitigation of large-scale DDoS attacks against the Moldovan Central Election Commission (CEC) and other election-related websites during the 2025 parliamentary elections. It quantifies the attacks, detailing over 898 million malicious requests mitigated against the CEC over a twelve-hour period, with peak rates exceeding 324,000 requests per second. The post also highlights the application of these protections to civic participation portals, democracy-related services, broadcasters, and news outlets, demonstrating a coordinated effort to disrupt both official processes and public information channels. The technical details include the categorization of attacks into multi-wave patterns and the real-time neutralization of these threats by Cloudflare's automated defenses.
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