Hacktivists are conducting DDoS attacks on European political parties that represent and promote strategies opposing their interests, according to a report by Cloudflare.
The European Parliament elections are already underway in the Netherlands and are set to begin in 26 more countries across the EU over the coming days, igniting politically motivated cyberattacks.
Cloudflare
reports that it has mitigated at least three distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack waves on various election-related sites in the Netherlands, as well as several political parties.
The internet company has shared information about two DDoS attacks occurring on June 5 and 6.
The first one peaked at 115 million requests per hour, with one site getting hit with 73,000 requests per second for four hours.
The second DDoS attack was a bit lighter, reaching 44 million requests per hour and peaking at 52,000 requests per second on one of the targets, once again targeting political sites in the Netherlands.
Cloudflare claims it thwarted both attempts to overwhelm and disrupt the targeted websites using its automated detection and mitigation services.
