https://thehackernews.com/2018/03/biggest-ddos-attack-github.html
GitHub is a code hosting website and someone or some group managed to find a misconfigured Memcached server(s) and spoofed an IP Address to create the DDoS event. The attack caused over 1.35Tbps of data, which is the largest attack ever. Experts say that these aren’t common and more to come in the future. The port number was 11211 and experts say to prevent these attacks is to either disable the port or use firewalls to protect memcached servers from attacks.
Wonder why attacking GitHub and not a financial website….! But it s good to know. Thanks.
RIght? That’s what I was thinking but maybe it was a way to disturb other websites who use github for their coding?