Members of the European Union are currently taking part in elections to the European Parliament, presenting a prime opportunity for hacktivists to perform Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks against political parties across the spectrum.
At time of writing, 8 of the 27 EU members have completed counting their votes, with the preliminary results and exit polls showing gains for right-wing parties.
Cloudflare says it has been involved in detecting and mitigating at least three DDoS attacks against political websites in the Netherlands, for which a pro-Russian cyber criminal group known as HackNeT has claimed responsibility.
Russia attacks shared interests
The HackNeT group took responsibility for attacks against two political parties in the Netherlands, the PVV (Party for Freedom)…
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