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Denial of Service attacks, distributed or not, usually target companies in an effort to sabotage their business; most commonly for the financial gain of the attackers by extorting money. We never imagined that such an attack would target not-for-profit Open Source projects and their infrastructure. We could not have been more wrong. In May 2022, we noticed a spike in traffic—500 times its usual average! The webserver that hosts the repository for PHP Archives (PHAR) of PHPUnit was being assaulte...