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DNSimple says that it was hit by a ‘massive' DDoS attack, believed to be the work of Chinese hackers, on Cyber Monday. The Florida-based company revealed on  Twitter  that it had been targeted by a volumetric DDoS attack overwhelming DDoS defences, and was working with its network provider to restore service. After first posting it was seeing a ‘system-wide' DNS outage, the firm added: “We are experiencing a massive DDoS. We are working with our network provider to mitigate it. Apologies.” In a series of posts later on Monday and early Tuesday morning, the firm revealed that it was working with its network provider to mitigate the volume of UDP traffic, including increasing service capacity. Most servers at data centres were fully operational briefly on Tuesday morning, only for attackers to return to target the US west coast data centre before ‘ramping' up DDoS attacks internationally. Cited and more on this story at SC Magazine