![]() ![]() GreatFire says that the attack against their servers started on March 17, and Citizen Lab pinpoints their end to April 8, 2015. Baidu denied that their servers were compromised,” Citizen Lab researchers noted, then explained: “The Great Cannon is not simply an extension of the Great Firewall, but a distinct attack tool that hijacks traffic to (or presumably from) individual IP addresses, and can arbitrarily replace unencrypted content as a man-in-the-middle.” “A report released by fingered malicious Javascript returned by Baidu servers as the source of the attack. ![]() The recent DDoS attacks aimed at GreatFire, a website that exposes China’s internet censorship efforts and helps users get access to their mirror-sites, and GitHub, the world’s largest code hosting service, have been linked to the Great Cannon, an attack tool co-located with the Great Firewall of China.
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