Since the unjust killing of George Floyd on May 25, protests have erupted across the United States inviting widespread violence. While this has been regularly reported in the media, a more neglected front is at play as well.
Brought to light recently by Cloudflare who has been providing protection to at-risk groups under its Project Galileo initiative; it has been discovered that there has been a staggering increase in cyberattacks in the past couple of weeks. Not surprisingly, this includes attacks on groups fighting to represent the “Black Lives Matter” movement shifting the war for rights to the digital world.
See: Hackers disrupt Chicago police radios with anti-cop songs
Coming to the analysis of these attacks, according to the chart released below in the article, a comparison is seen between a week from April and May on how many malicious HTTP requests were received by Cloudflare. These requests usually aim to overload the website with excessive traffic in a DDoS attack or “break into them” through other ways.
According to the data shown, over 116 billion HTTP requests were observed in the month of April alone which as Cloudflare put it, translates to about “670,000 blocked requests per second” in a 2 day period.
In comparison, Google gets about 63,000 search requests per second which is 10x less showing the massive volume of attacks that websites may receive in such a short time period.
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