The attack is aimed at two popular Github projects, Great Fire and CN-NY Times. The attackers are using China’s search engine Baidu to conduct a sort of “HTTP hijacking” The attack was still fighting off the attack a few hours ago. It’s still not clear who carried out the attack but you are welcome to make an educated guess in the comments. It appears that people with access to the traffic on the border of China’s internet often called the Great Firewall of China injected a malicious script into the connections of these visitors.”]
Source: https://gizmodo.com/who-on-earth-would-attack-github-for-its-anti-great-fir-1694134233