Posted by Soulskill
An anonymous reader writes:
During the past two days, popular code hosting site GitHub has been under a DDoS attack, which has led to intermittent service interruptions.
As blogger Anthr@X reports from traceroute lists, the attack originated from MITM-modified JavaScript files for the Chinese company Baidu's user tracking code, changing the unencrypted content as it passed through the great firewall of China to request the URL's github.com/greatfire/ and github.com/cn-nytimes/.
The Chinese government's dislike of widespread VPN usage may have caused it to arrange the attack, where only people accessing Baidu's services from outside the firewall would contribute to the DDoS. This wouldn't have been the first time China arranged this kind of "protest."
An anonymous reader writes:
During the past two days, popular code hosting site GitHub has been under a DDoS attack, which has led to intermittent service interruptions.
As blogger Anthr@X reports from traceroute lists, the attack originated from MITM-modified JavaScript files for the Chinese company Baidu's user tracking code, changing the unencrypted content as it passed through the great firewall of China to request the URL's github.com/greatfire/ and github.com/cn-nytimes/.
The Chinese government's dislike of widespread VPN usage may have caused it to arrange the attack, where only people accessing Baidu's services from outside the firewall would contribute to the DDoS. This wouldn't have been the first time China arranged this kind of "protest."
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