Exploring the 2024 EU Election: Internet traffic trends and cybersecurity insights

Cloudflare Radar details EU election-period Internet patterns, showing modest traffic drops during voting hours and spikes as results and political announcements were released, alongside sharp increases in DNS queries to election, news, and results domains. It also notes government-focused DDoS activity around the period, including a 73k rps attack on Dutch political sites (June 5–6), a 420 million requests/hour attack on a French government site (Feb 25), and several smaller events across multiple EU countries, underscoring persistent threats to public-sector infrastructure.