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Mallory pivots from this family to the IOCs, detections, and named campaigns that touch your stack, and pages you when something new lands.
9 distinct techniques documented for this family, organized by ATT&CK tactic.
In this case, the Great Cannon hijacked attempts to load a Baidu analytics script on certain popular websites, causing visitors’ browsers to launch DDoS attacks against GreatFire.
Idea: JavaScript-based DDoS by injecting code which performs requests to targets
When online polling began on June 20, only one provider resumed service, reporting that the attacks had swelled to more than 300 Gbps, one of the largest DDoS volumes reported up to that point globally.
2 sources tracked across advisories, community write-ups, and news. New activity surfaces here as Mallory finds it.
A PRC-linked offensive DDoS capability used to inject malicious code into passing traffic and co-opt visitors’ browsers into launching large-scale denial-of-service attacks against targets such as GreatFire, GitHub, LIHKG, and MingJing.
An offensive network attack system that injects malicious JavaScript into HTTP traffic to co-opt visiting browsers into generating distributed denial-of-service traffic against selected targets such as GitHub and GreatFire-related infrastructure.
Match every observed IP, domain, and hash against your live telemetry.
Named campaigns wielding this family, with evidence pinned to each claim.
CVEs this family uses for access and lateral movement.
YARA, Sigma, Snort, and vendor rules, auto-deployed to your SIEM.
Every documented technique, ranked by evidence weight.
Reddit, Mastodon, and CTI community discussion around this family.