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I think it's more they're no longer worried about it evolving any more.
From a state sponsored attacker I would have expected to see a BGP attack..
I think it's more they're no longer worried about it evolving any more.
They'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..
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Not 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. :-)
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.
https://github.com/greatfire and https://github.com/cn-nytimes have both returned to normal as well.
Update: its working now, but it was definitely not working earlier.
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.
I'm also unable to access the two repos that were apparently the target of the PRC's ire: https://github.com/cn-nytimes and 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.
I'm also unable to access the two repos that were apparently the target of the PRC's ire: https://github.com/cn-nytimes and 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.
I'm also unable to access the two repos that were apparently the target of the PRC's ire: https://github.com/cn-nytimes and 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.