Summary
Philippine COMELEC (Commission on Elections) voter verification systems experienced sustained DDoS attacks peaking at 3.2 Tbps during the May 2026 midterm election preparation period. Attacks originated from a botnet comprising compromised IoT devices across Southeast Asia. Philippine DICT (Department of Information and Communications Technology) and Cloudflare mitigated the attacks within 6 hours, but voter registration portal experienced intermittent outages over 3 days.
Attribution
Unknown (suspected hacktivist / state-proxy)
PhilippinesEU relevance
Medium
Hit election infrastructure in Philippines, where the EU has Infrastructure & Transport projects
Graded by rules: EU member states affected, EU response, EU sanctions, EU projects in the sector hit.