A Chinese Internet freedom organization, GreatFire, is being hit with large-scale cyberattacks in what they believe is retaliation for challenging the Chinese Communist Party’s revived censorship campaign.
GreatFire allows Internet users in China to bypass the Party’s online censorship. They create mirror versions of websites blocked in China, which allows users to view and use services otherwise unavailable such as China Digital Times and Google.
“We don’t know who is behind this attack. However, the attack coincides with increased pressure on our organization over the last few months,” says a statement on the GreatFire website.
The Chinese regime’s Cyberspace Administration of China recently labeled them “an anti-China website” and accused them of being set up by “an overseas anti-China organization.” The Chinese Communist Party often labels groups that criticize it for censorship and human rights abuses as being “anti-China.”
They state the Cyberspace Administration of China has also been pressuring GreatFire’s partners to stop working with them, and an unknown actor tried intercepting their encrypted email.
