Anti-Censorship GitHub Pages Under DDoS Attack From China

The online coding platform GitHub has been under a large-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that cyber-security experts pinpoint as originating from China. The attack was being launched from devices that had visited the Chinese search engine Baidu.

On Thursday, the online coding platform GitHub was the target of large-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks trafficked through Baidu, China's largest search engine. Tomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg

The online coding platform GitHub has been under a large-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that cyber-security experts pinpoint as originating from China. The attack was being launched from devices that had visited the Chinese search engine Baidu.

“We are currently experiencing the largest DDoS attack in github.com’s history,” GitHub said in a blog post. “These include every vector we’ve seen in previous attacks as well as some sophisticated new techniques that use the web browsers of unsuspecting, uninvolved people to flood github.com with high levels of traffic.”

The attacks began Wednesday evening and surged again on Friday morning.

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