Coding Website GitHub Suffers 'Largest DDoS' Attack

U.S. coding website GitHub has suffered the largest DDoS attack in the website's history. The attack might have originated from China, according to reports.

GitHub is used by users across the globe for storing projects that ranges from game engines to security applications and web app frameworks.

"We are currently experiencing the largest DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack in github.com's history. The attack began around 2AM UTC on Thursday, March 26, and involves a wide combination of attack vectors. 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," GitHub announced in a blog post.

The company believes the intent is of this attack is to remove a specific class of content.

"The "specific class" of content may be related to China. As reported by the Wall Street Journal, GitHub's traffic surge is based on visits intended for China's largest search engine, Baidu. Security experts told the publication that the vast levels of traffic intended for Baidu has paralyzed GitHub over the DDoS attack's duration," ZDNet reported.

At the time of writing this story, the GitHub Status noted: "All systems reporting at 100%. Attack traffic continues, so we remain on high alert."