Increased Cyber Activity During The US Elections!
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US elections have always had a great amount of buzz around it, and 2024's elections were no exception. Such attention comes with its risks and threats. In today's world, where political campaigns and polling stations have websites, cyber attacks can be one of those serious threats. So, let's find out how online activities changed during this year's elections. According to Cloudflare, the prominent online security service provider, election-related websites saw over 6 billion HTTP DDoS requests from November 1st to November 6th, which was more than the total requests during September and October.
One popular campaign website experienced 9 phases of DDoS attacks from October 29 to November 6. During each phase, the number of requests was anything between 200000 to 700000 per second in order to overwhelm the website and take it down. The attackers used various unique requests and geographical information to make the attack more effective. The peak bandwidth of one of the attacks was between 8 Gbps to 16 Gbps, which was sent to Cloudflare and prevented the site from going down.
Another attack happened on November 3, which targeted a large infrastructure website for a political party. It lasted two minutes and reached 260000 HTTP requests per second.
A US political party website was targeted on October 29. The website received a total of more than 2 billion requests over a 4-hour period, which were blocked.
In comparison, the number of blocked malicious HTTP requests during the 2020 elections was significantly lower. Total detected attacks during October and November of 2020 were almost 125 million, while 2024 elections saw billions of attacks. However, the attacks were blocked and had no major impact.
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#news #privacy #security #election
US elections have always had a great amount of buzz around it, and 2024's elections were no exception. Such attention comes with its risks and threats. In today's world, where political campaigns and polling stations have websites, cyber attacks can be one of those serious threats. So, let's find out how online activities changed during this year's elections. According to Cloudflare, the prominent online security service provider, election-related websites saw over 6 billion HTTP DDoS requests from November 1st to November 6th, which was more than the total requests during September and October.
One popular campaign website experienced 9 phases of DDoS attacks from October 29 to November 6. During each phase, the number of requests was anything between 200000 to 700000 per second in order to overwhelm the website and take it down. The attackers used various unique requests and geographical information to make the attack more effective. The peak bandwidth of one of the attacks was between 8 Gbps to 16 Gbps, which was sent to Cloudflare and prevented the site from going down.
Another attack happened on November 3, which targeted a large infrastructure website for a political party. It lasted two minutes and reached 260000 HTTP requests per second.
A US political party website was targeted on October 29. The website received a total of more than 2 billion requests over a 4-hour period, which were blocked.
In comparison, the number of blocked malicious HTTP requests during the 2020 elections was significantly lower. Total detected attacks during October and November of 2020 were almost 125 million, while 2024 elections saw billions of attacks. However, the attacks were blocked and had no major impact.
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🆔Privacy