Politically Motivated DDoS Attacks

Politically motivated DDoS attacks are becoming more common as cyber threats are increasingly used to disrupt the political process.

If your website is for a political party, candidate or organization, or advances a specific political cause, then it may be vulnerable to attack from people who disagree with your politics.

This won’t unnecessarily come from your political opponents. It is more likely to come from external sources that seek to disrupt political debate, block certain types of content and use chaos to confuse and disenfranchise people.

The attack could be an attempt to make it impossible for people to access your content (see above), or it could be a more personal attack on the individual candidate or organization behind the site.

Hopefully, the above information gives you a little more insight on how to stop a DDoS attack. This is of course just one of many different ways you could approach the situation. But if you’re already in panic mode, usually migrating to either Cloudflare or Sucuri can get you back up and running smooth in no time. If you are just trying to save money on bandwidth from spam bots, a web application firewall can also be a very effective solution.

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