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Re: China’s Slow Transnational Network
From: "Scott Weeks" <surfer () mauigateway com>
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2020 14:13:33 -0800
In fact, Great Canon (GC) [55] is such an in-path system. But it is known for intercepting a subset of traffic (based on protocol type) only. What’s more, GC has been activated only twice in history (the last one in 2015 [55]). ----------------------------------- AT&T security says otherwise: https://cybersecurity.att.com/blogs/labs-research/the-great-cannon-has-been-deployed-again The Great Cannon is a distributed denial of service tool (“DDoS”) that operates by injecting malicious Javascript into pages served from behind the Great Firewall." "The Great Cannon was the subject of intense research after it was used to disrupt access to the website Github.com in 2015. Little has been seen of the Great Cannon since 2015. However, we’ve recently observed new attacks..." "On August 31, 2019, the Great Cannon initiated an attack against a website (lihkg.com) used by members of the Hong Kong democracy movement to plan protests." scott
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- Re: China’s Slow Transnational Network, (continued)
- Re: China’s Slow Transnational Network Pengxiong Zhu (Mar 21)
- Re: China’s Slow Transnational Network Mark Tinka (Mar 21)
- Re: China’s Slow Transnational Network Pengxiong Zhu (Mar 21)
- Re: China’s Slow Transnational Network Pengxiong Zhu (Mar 21)
- Re: China’s Slow Transnational Network Pengxiong Zhu (Mar 02)
- Re: China’s Slow Transnational Network Pengxiong Zhu (Mar 02)
- Re: China’s Slow Transnational Network Ben Cannon (Mar 15)
- Re: China’s Slow Transnational Network Rubens Kuhl (Mar 03)
- Re: China’s Slow Transnational Network Matt Corallo (Mar 03)