# Anti-Racism Sites Hit By Wave of Cyberattacks **URL:** \ **Category:** News & Articles\ **Tags:** tools, hacking, freebies\ **Created:** [June 4, 2020, 2:33pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/anti-racism-sites-hit-by-wave-of-cyberattacks/89935 "2020-06-04T14:33:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
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![image](https://onehack.st/uploads/default/original/3X/3/7/3758beb2c4d046e049f7eaf636c7c611b5459ce3.jpeg) An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: _Cyber-attacks against anti-racism organizations [shot up in the wake of the death of George Floyd](https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-52912881), a leading provider of protection services says. Cloudflare, which blocks attacks designed to knock websites offline, says advocacy groups in general saw attacks increase 1,120-fold. Mr Floyd’s death, in police custody, has sparked nationwide civil unrest in the US. Government and military websites also saw a notable increase in attacks. Cloudflare says that after Mr Floyd’s death and the ensuing violent clashes between police and protesters, it saw a noticeable jump in the amount of requests it blocked – an extra 19 billion (17%) from the corresponding weekend the previous month. That equates to an extra 110,000 blocked requests every second, it said._ _The problem was particularly acute for certain types of organizations. One single website belonging to an unnamed advocacy group dealt with 20,000 requests a second. Anti-racism groups which belong to Cloudflare’s free program for at-risk organizations saw a large surge in the past week, from near-zero to more than 120 million blocked requests. Attacks on government and military websites were also up — by 1.8 and 3.8 times respectively._