Views: 285,904 LOIC Download below – Low Orbit Ion Cannon is an Open Source Stress Testing and Denial of Service (DoS or DDoS) attack application written in C#. It’s an interesting tool in that it’s often used in what are usually classified as political cyber-terrorist attacks against large capitalistic organisations. The hivemind version gives average […]
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Mirai Source Code for DDoS Malware Bonet Leaked
Views: 10,447 So there’s been some HUGE DDoS attacks going on lately, up to 620Gbps and the Mirai source code DDoS Malware bonet has been fingered – with the source code also being leaked. It’s spreading like wildfire too, and the scariest thought? All that was really needed to construct it was a telnet scanner […]
Two Israeli Men Arrested For Running VDoS-s.com DDoS Service
Views: 5,649 DDoS or Booter services have been around for a while, but VDoS-s.com was a particularly slick (and shameless) one with a content marketing strategy and active social media accounts. Two Israeli men were arrested for running the service after ironically being hacked by a security researcher. They called their service a ‘Stresser’ and […]
THC SSL DoS/DDoS Tool Released For Download
Views: 30,749 THC-SSL-DOS is a tool to verify the performance of SSL. Establishing a secure SSL connection requires 15x more processing power on the server than on the client. THC-SSL-DOS exploits this asymmetric property by overloading the server and knocking it off the Internet. This problem affects all SSL implementations today. The vendors are aware […]
WikiLeaks Attacks Cause Rival DDoS Retaliation
Views: 11,079 The biggest news by far for the past week or so has been the attacks on WikiLeaks infrastructure after posting tens of thousands of classified cables online in a categorized form. Just a few days ago their DNS provider (EveryDNS) pulled the plug – apparently due to pressure from the US government, and […]