Great Cannon

Pierluigi Paganini December 05, 2019
China used the Great Cannon DDoS Tool against forum used by Hong Kong protestors

China is accused to have used the “Great Cannon” DDoS tool to launch attacks against LIHKG, a forum used by Hong Kong residents to organize protests. The Great Cannon Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) tool was used again by the Chinese government, this time it was used to target the LIHKG forum used by Hong Kong protesters to […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 29, 2015
Mobile Ad Network exploited to run a major DDoS Attack

Security experts at CloudFlare observed a major DDoS attack against one of their customers that appeared to leverage a mobile ad network. CloudFlare firms revealed that one of its customers was recently hit by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that appeared to leverage a mobile ad network and malicious JavaScript. The experts explained that the DDoS attack […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 11, 2015
Great Cannon, the powerful Chinese hacking platform

Researchers uncovered the Great Cannon, a powerful hacking tool, used by the Chinese Government to run MITM attacks, that was used also against GitHub. The researchers from the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Toronto have uncovered a powerful weapon of the Chinese Government cyber arsenal, dubbed the Great Cannon, used to […]