This article reminds me or some sort of buzzfeed article with ads and "click-bait" links everywhere with little to no content at all.

Regardless, hacker activists tend to take claim to this level of chaos if they caused it and China's government wouldn't sabotage itself like that either.

The more likely scenario in my mind would be the U.S. doing this to try and push it's agenda for more "security" on the internet.

If this was an attack, it was the US poking the Chinese markets , then pulling it's own plug before the waves they caused rocked their own boats.

I think even that is pretty unlikely, because any cyber attacks made these days will alert network security to the existence of an exploit. Why would an attacker expend such a massive leverage point, and not do any damage? Game theory 101, even 3rd world extremists get the concept.

Yes. It serves the dual purpose of scaring people away from the internet as well as push the Chinese boogeyman narrative down our throats.

The "Cyber WW3" meme is all about increasing public acceptance of more intrusive government control of the internet.

When you see a website or the MSM fear-mongering about it, that's the ultimate goal.

Will you help?