14 DAY TRIAL // Around one hour ago, GitHub reported experiencing major service outages. It turns out that they were caused by a distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack.
“Working with our upstream providers to mitigate a rather large DDoS at the moment,” the organization noted from its GitHub Status Twitter account.
“We've put mitigation in place that should deflect the attack, and services are recovering. We're continuing to monitor closely,” GitHub added.
Currently, the website and all other services appear to be working properly.
GitHub is often targeted with DDOS attacks. The latest one took place on June 12. Similar to this one, the services were disrupted for less than one hour.
Experts report that DDOS attacks have grown on all fronts over the last quarter. The average bandwidth reached 49.24 Gbps, and the average packet-per-second rate reached 47.7 Mbps.