In two cyberattacks lasting more than 26 hours, the Chinese-language website of The Epoch Times was recently targeted with tens of billions of automated attempts to connect to the website or load its pages, using internet addresses around the world.
The distributed denial-of-service attacks were designed to overwhelm the website with traffic and disrupt access. Despite attackers repeatedly changing tactics, the website remained available to readers worldwide and no readers’ or subscribers’ personal information was accessed.
The first wave began at 5:42 p.m. ET on Sept. 10 and lasted about 11 hours. A second, larger wave began later that morning and continued for more than 15 hours, according to The Epoch Times’ IT department….