DDOS Attack Targets Popular Anti-Censorship Projects on Github

Github is getting hammered by a immense allot - denial - of - service attack . Looks like it pissed off the wrong pro - censorship group : The onslaught is aimed at two popular Github projects , Great FireandCN - NY Times , that help Chinese citizens get around their government ’s restrictive online censors to access blank out message .

Who does that ?

The attackers are using China ’s search engine Baidu to conduct a form of “ HTTP hijacking , ” in the words of thesecurity research worker from Insight Labswho discoveredhow the attack was going down .

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Baidu dish out advertising and other bits of computer code to website all over the world . But when masses outside China get at a internet site that ’s do Baidu ’s codification , they get a special malware injection . It appears that people with access to the dealings on the boundary line of China ’s internet — often telephone the Great Firewall of China — injected a malicious book into the HTTP connectedness of these visitant . The script aim web dealings back to Great Fire and CN - NY Times , flooding those sites with dealings .

Since Baidu is extremely popular , the overflow of traffic was too much for Github . It was still fighting off the fire a few hr ago :

The tone-beginning has ramp up again , and we ’re evolving our mitigation strategies to match .

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