Exploring the 2024 EU Election: Internet traffic trends and cybersecurity insights

The 2024 European Parliament election saw a significant impact on Internet traffic, with hundreds of millions of Europeans from 27 EU countries electing 720 members. Central European countries experienced the highest drop in internet traffic during voting hours, while Southern and Eastern Europe had moderate to significant drops. After voting ended, there was an increase in HTTP requests as election results were announced. Cyberattacks on government websites in the EU have been a growing concern, with 8.6 billion threats mitigated between January and June 2024.