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

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Feed Name: Cloudflare Blog

Threat Score
65/100

Date Published: 2024-11-06

Date Updated: 2026-04-27

Author: João Tomé

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Cloudflare observed and mitigated a large, coordinated surge of DDoS attacks against US election-related infrastructure in late 2024—blocking billions of malicious HTTP requests (peaks up to 700k rps and >16 Gbps)—while also reporting major DNS traffic spikes to news, polling, and candidate sites and elevated candidate-related email volumes; proactive protections prevented material disruption.

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