480M cyberattacks hit House of Representatives website, 53M in first hour; DDoS attack from multiple countries; blocked by ICTS via Cloudflare.
House of Representatives website experienced 480M cyberattacks in a day, with over 53M attacks within the first hour. The DDoS attack aimed to make the platform unavailable to users. The majority of attacks originated from Indonesia, US, Columbia, India, and other countries. The ICTS team successfully blocked and managed the attacks through Cloudflare service, displaying an 'under maintenance' notice and restarting the servers.
March 14, 2024
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