AFAIK, and judging from the comments on r/btc, the attack began before Peter Todd posted on twitter about it. Stop with this bullshit propaganda. 
To make matters worse, the fake incident report that "allegedly affected Core": https://medium.com/@g.andrew.stone/buir-2017-2-23-statement-regarding-network-wide-bitcoin-client-failure-28a59ffffeaa#.7rqgmlmb4
https://archive.fo/Sx31y
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I've been under the impression, and somewhat taken for granted, that Ciphera is Eric Lombrozo, a prominent Bitcoin Core developer and a spokesperson for the Bitcoin Core client.
Who paid for this article? To make matters worse, the fake incident report that "allegedly affected Core": https://medium.com/@g.andrew.stone/buir-2017-2-23-statement-regarding-network-wide-bitcoin-client-failure-28a59ffffeaa#.7rqgmlmb4
https://archive.fo/Sx31y