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Exploring Internet traffic shifts and cyber attacks during the 2024 US election

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Feed Name: Cloudflare Blog

Date Published: 2024-11-06

Date Updated: 2026-04-27

Author: João Tomé

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Cloudflare details that around the Nov 5, 2024 U.S. election it automatically mitigated over 6 billion HTTP DDoS requests against campaign and election-related websites, preventing significant disruptions, and highlights attacker methods (randomized user agents, cache-busting, geodiverse sources) alongside nationwide Internet, DNS, and email trends showing sharp traffic spikes to news, polling, and social platforms and varying spam/phishing rates mentioning candidates.

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