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It 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 ci
by pyre 12y ago
It 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".