On: GitHub under ongoing DDoS attack

[kenrick95]

Blog post from GitHub related to this.

https://github.com/blog/1981-large-scale-ddos-attack-on-gith...

[MetaCosm → kenrick95]

I really wish they would post what the attacker wants removed so we could mirror it, post it, etc. The streisand effect is a good response to things like this I think.

[pstadler → MetaCosm]

It appears that the first attack was targeted at https://github.com/cn-nytimes/ and https://github.com/greatfire/ [1]. Accessing these two pages still responds with `alert("WARNING: malicious javascript detected on this domain")` which is supposed to be executed on the (innocent) client's browser.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9275381

[13throwaway → pstadler]

You can access those pages by removing the final slash.

[Narretz → MetaCosm]

I think among the sites is the GreatFire repo: https://github.com/greatfire