{"id":8022,"date":"2019-12-09T06:11:20","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T11:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.g33kinfo.com\/info\/?p=8022"},"modified":"2019-12-09T06:11:20","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T11:11:20","slug":"the-great-cannon-has-been-deployed-again-att-alien-labs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/g33kinfo.com\/info\/the-great-cannon-has-been-deployed-again-att-alien-labs\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u201cGreat Cannon\u201d has been deployed again | AT&#038;T Alien Labs"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/cybersecurity.att.com\/blogs\/labs-research\/the-great-cannon-has-been-deployed-again\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/g33kinfo.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/great-cannon-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"319\" height=\"178\" \/><\/a>SummaryThe Great Cannon is a distributed denial of service tool (\u201cDDoS\u201d) that operates by injecting malicious Javascript into pages served from behind the Great Firewall. These scripts, potentially served to millions of users across the internet, hijack the users\u2019 connections to make multiple requests against the targeted site. These requests consume all the resources of the targeted site, making it unavailable:Figure 1: Simplified diagram of how the Great Cannon operates<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/cybersecurity.att.com\/blogs\/labs-research\/the-great-cannon-has-been-deployed-again\">The \u201cGreat Cannon\u201d has been deployed again | AT&amp;T Alien Labs<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SummaryThe Great Cannon is a distributed denial of service tool (\u201cDDoS\u201d) that operates by injecting malicious Javascript into pages served from behind the Great Firewall. These scripts, potentially served to millions of users across the internet, hijack the users\u2019 connections to make multiple requests against the targeted site. These requests consume all the resources of&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more navbutton\"><a href=\"https:\/\/g33kinfo.com\/info\/the-great-cannon-has-been-deployed-again-att-alien-labs\/\">Read More<i class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-info"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The \u201cGreat Cannon\u201d has been deployed again | AT&amp;T Alien Labs - Linux Shtuff<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/g33kinfo.com\/info\/the-great-cannon-has-been-deployed-again-att-alien-labs\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The \u201cGreat Cannon\u201d has been deployed again | AT&amp;T Alien Labs - Linux Shtuff\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"SummaryThe Great Cannon is a distributed denial of service tool (\u201cDDoS\u201d) that operates by injecting malicious Javascript into pages served from behind the Great Firewall. 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