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DDoS attack on GitHub has stopped? Status is green again.
- ryannevius 12y agoMaybe...but it was green a couple of times on March 27 as well. Time will tell.
- johnnyfaehell 12y agoI think it's more they're no longer worried about it evolving any more.
- NamTaf 12y agoThey had said in their updates that they'd leave it yellow until it subsided. https://status.github.com/messages https://status.github.com/messages
- cotillion 12y agoThey're still hiding behind Prolexic/Akamai. I suspect the attacker is waiting for them to drop that protection. From a state sponsored attacker I would have expected to see a BGP attack..
- tux3 12y agoA BGP attack would be a whole new level of "This is war", probably with a bit more consequences.
- f055 12y agoDoes anybody have any wider context regarding this attack? Is it the first time a massive DDoS like that was mitigated, with just minor disruptions to the victim?
- lordbusiness 12y agoNot by a long-shot; this was reported as a big deal (and I'd love to have more insight and data available), but this kind of thing has been going on for many years. Ask your local DNS admin for some war stories. :-)
- pyre 12y agoIt also gained notoriety because it seemed like an attempt by a Chinese actor (possibly the PRC) to force Github to take down two repositories that helped to circumvent the Great Firewall. Github itself has weathered DDoS attacks before, but I'm not sure how different this attack was in scale.
- sanxiyn 12y agohttps://github.com/blog/1981-large-scale-ddos-attack-on-github-com https://github.com/blog/1981-large-scale-ddos-attack-on-gith... explicitly states that "We are currently experiencing the largest DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack in github.com's history".
- zmk 12y agoPrologue: http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/19/anti-censorship-service-greatfire-is-under-attack/ http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/19/anti-censorship-service-gre... See links around this article, similar attacks have happened before: http://www.netresec.com/?page=Blog&month=2015-03&post=China%27s-Man-on-the-Side-Attack-on-GitHub http://www.netresec.com/?page=Blog&month=2015-03&post=China%...
- timdorr 12y agohttps://github.com/greatfire https://github.com/greatfire and https://github.com/cn-nytimes https://github.com/cn-nytimes have both returned to normal as well.
- snsr 12y agoI'm still seeing the unicorn via those URLs.
- MollyR 12y agoYea I can't seem to get to those pages either. Update: its working now, but it was definitely not working earlier.
- smurfpandey 12y agoIt's working from my end.
- remi 12y agohttps://twitter.com/githubstatus/status/582862783827591168 https://twitter.com/githubstatus/status/582862783827591168
- dak1 12y agoI'm also unable to access the two repos that were apparently the target of the PRC's ire: https://github.com/cn-nytimes https://github.com/cn-nytimes and https://github.com/greatfire https://github.com/greatfire Is this simply a temporary precautionary measure because of the initial JS DDOS, or has GitHub permanently taken those two repos down? If it's the latter, then I'm really disappointed and it would seem the PRC was able to get what it wanted.
- smurfpandey 12y agoBoth repos are still up and accessible from my end (India).
- andor436 12y agoThey're there for me (I'm in the US-midwest.)
- micah_chatt 12y agoInterestingly, GitHub seem's to be allowing logged-in users to access those pages, but using a incongnito tab shows unicorns. I'm guessing they've just disabled access for unauthenticated requests.
- andor436 12y agoAha, you're right! Same behavior for me.