Stranger and stranger - the DDoS protection worked, only it didn't? While I have no doubt that they received traffic from every continent (as does my home Internet connection hosting zero inbound services according to firewall logs) I'm not sure that makes it a targeted attack either. Checking their DNS history, Cloudflare has been in-place since September, so it wasn't an afterthought once things started going wrong.
https://twitter.com/rowlsmanthorpe/status/1194224258161008640
"Confirmed from a Labour source: the DDOS attack came from "a botnet with IPs on every continent."
Adds: "We use Cloudflare which soaked up the large majority of the traffic, but the DDOS-protection measures did have some knock-on effects on traffic between systems."
The counter would be hiring a botnet to DDoS a very specific part of a political opponents hours before a deadline for pamphlet printing sounds a little bit too much like " a dog ate my homework, can I have extra time?"
I'm sure we will see more evidence if it is real or it will quietly be forgotten if the cause was benign.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
