A distributed denial-of-service attack that affected thousands of customers at web-hosting firm Codero appeared to come from within China, the company said on Tuesday.
The DDoS attack took Codero's customers offline for most of Tuesday morning, but these were collateral damage in the attack, Ryan Elledge, chief operating officer at Codero, told ZDNet UK's sister site CNET News.
Directly in the path of the attack was a Codero customer that hosts Domain Name System (DNS) records for sites on the internet, including a website critical of communism that appeared to be the ultimate end target, he said. At least three other hosting providers for that website were also affected by the attack, Elledge said. He declined to name any of the companies involved or the website. All of Codero's customers were back up by 1pm PT (9pm GMT), according to Elledge.
For more on this ZDNet UK-selected story, see China-related DoS attack takes down Codero-hosted Web sites on CNET News.
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