[Ignitionnet]

Interesting.

The largest cyber attack in history has been carried out against independent media sites in Hong Kong over the past few months, according to the company protecting them, increasing in their intensity each time pro-democracy activists announced new activities or developments.

That has prompted some ISPs like Virgin Media in the UK to play into the hands of the attackers by proactively blocking access to protect their own infrastructure, says Prince, something that he has never seen happen.

“It’s perverse because it means that even though the PopVote infrastructure and Cloudfare were able to defend the attack, there were still some ISPs around the world who were blocking access to the site.”

Through their network of infected personal computers and servers, the attackers have been sending a flood of spoof requests linked to the Hong Kong sites, forcing the ISPs to look up their IP addresses via the DNS global infrastructure. Overwhelmed with requests, ISPs like Virgin halted legitimate connections to the sites.