The prime suspect of the DDoS attack is China.
An online forum used by activists behind the ongoing Hong Kong protests has suffered a DDoS attack forcing its servers to go offline for a short period of time.
The targeted website called LIHKG, is a popular platform in Hong Kong often referred to as Reddit’s version of the country.
Lately, the site has gained massive attention after Hong Kong protestors made it their home to discuss and setup protests against 2019’s infamous extradition bill.
According to the official statement from LIHKG, the DDoS attack began targeting the website on August 31st, 2019 in which unique visitors rose to 6.5 million and total requests exceeded 1.5 billion per hour.
See: Man whose DDoS attacks took down entire country’s Internet jailed
In a distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS attack) the incoming traffic flooding the victim originates from many different sources. This effectively makes it impossible to stop the attack simply by blocking a single source.
“We have reasons to believe that there is a power, or even a national level power behind to organize such attacks as botnet from all over the world were manipu ..
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