George Floyd’s death results in a disturbing rise in online attacks on anti-racism groups.
... [+]“Those groups went from having almost no attacks at all in April to attacks peaking at 20,000 requests per second on a single site,” the company’s CEO, Matthew Prince, and its chief technology officer, John Graham-Cumming, wrote in a blog post.
“One particular attacker, likely using a hacked server in France, was especially persistent and kept up an attack hitting an advocacy group continuously for over a day. We blocked those malicious HTTP requests and kept the site online.” In May, attacks on government, police and emergency services websites were up 1.8 times and 3.8 times on military websites, compared to the figures in April. Last week, the “We have been listening carefully to those who have taken to the streets in protest to demand justice and an end to structural racism, and believe that their powerful stories can serve as catalysts for real change. But that requires them to be heard,” the Cloudflare chiefs wrote in the post.
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