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China has created a “Great Cannon” for DDoS attacks
Researchers from the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Toronto presented a description of a new DDoS attack tool developed by China. They called this tool the "Great Cannon" after the "Great Firewall of China".
The "Great Gun" is able to intercept traffic that goes to Chinese sites (like the most popular search engine Baidu) and redirect it to specific targets.
attack was organized According to this principle, the GitHub . This site is generally used by programmers to store code, but the Great Fire organization (which fights censorship in China) stores other material there as well. In addition, there are some kind of "mirrors" of media banned in China - for example, The New York Times.
On March 26, a powerful DDoS attack on GitHub began. As it turned out, requests that came from the "external" (not Chinese) Internet to Baidu were redirected to GitHub. The resource fell several times. The attack continued for at least four days.
The commissioning of the Big Gun demonstrates the expansion of state control over information. (English.)
- In China, there is a "Great Firewall", thanks to which access to the largest Western resources from the country is blocked, including Twitter, Facebook, Google and so on. Residents of China have to dodge to use the largest social networks - for example, disguise traffic as Skype, which is allowed.