WordPress DDoS Attacks Primarily From China, Possibly Politically Motivated

After recovering from the largest Distributed Denial of Service attack in the service is history ("mulgratuityle Gigabits per moment and tens of millions of packets per moment") yesterday morning, blog host Wordpress.com was attacked again very early this morning, lastly stabilizing its service at 11:15 UTC (around 3am PST).

Wordpress.com hosts over 30 million blogs, numerous of them news sites like our own,  which lead some to conjecture that the attacks had come from the Middle East, a region experiencing its own internet issues at the moment. Not so says Automattic founder Matt Mullenweg, who tells me that 98% of the attacks over the past two days originated in China with a small percentage coming from Japan and Korea.