December 13, 2010 at 17:38JS LOIC: one click attack
As you know, to conduct a DDoS attack on the sites of Mastercard, Visa, Paypal and so on. many members of the Anonymous group use the LOIC (Low Orbit Ion Cannon) program written in C # and originally intended for stress testing sites. The same program was previously used for DDoS attacks on the sites of the Church of Scientology and the RIAA website (in October 2010).
Noteworthy fact: from December 8 to 10, 2010, the client version of this program was downloaded about 30,000 timesdespite the fact that the total number of downloads for the entire time of its existence is approximately 50,000. Most of the downloads in recent days come from the USA (10,000 downloads), but users from the UK (3200), Germany, France also showed an unexpected interest in stress testing sites. , Holland, Spain and Russia (each of these countries has from 1,000 to 2,000 downloads).
The server version of LOIC was downloaded about 33 thousand times.
As for the online “revenge tool” JS LOIC , there the number of users is not amenable to accounting.
JS LOIC - a relatively new modification of the tool, announced four days ago. Here, in general, everything is simple: choose a target and launch the “orbital ion cannon” with one mouse click (LOIC name was chosen by the name of a similar weapon in Command & Conquer).
To synchronize the attack, Anonymous uses a network of IRC channels and twitter accounts. For example, to configure the client version of LOIC for a synchronous attack, you need to select Hive Mind mode and join the corresponding AnonOps IRC server. The attack will begin immediately as soon as the nodes in the botnet receive a command from the IRC server.
It should be noted that in some countries participation in DDoS attacks is illegal, although in Russia there has not yet been a single precedent for criminal prosecution of ordinary attackers. Usually, law enforcement agencies hunt for the organizers, but they, of course, try to follow all safety measures, sit at seven proxy servers and themselves do not use such tools revealing anonymity as LOIC.
Noteworthy fact: from December 8 to 10, 2010, the client version of this program was downloaded about 30,000 timesdespite the fact that the total number of downloads for the entire time of its existence is approximately 50,000. Most of the downloads in recent days come from the USA (10,000 downloads), but users from the UK (3200), Germany, France also showed an unexpected interest in stress testing sites. , Holland, Spain and Russia (each of these countries has from 1,000 to 2,000 downloads).
The server version of LOIC was downloaded about 33 thousand times.
As for the online “revenge tool” JS LOIC , there the number of users is not amenable to accounting.
JS LOIC - a relatively new modification of the tool, announced four days ago. Here, in general, everything is simple: choose a target and launch the “orbital ion cannon” with one mouse click (LOIC name was chosen by the name of a similar weapon in Command & Conquer).
To synchronize the attack, Anonymous uses a network of IRC channels and twitter accounts. For example, to configure the client version of LOIC for a synchronous attack, you need to select Hive Mind mode and join the corresponding AnonOps IRC server. The attack will begin immediately as soon as the nodes in the botnet receive a command from the IRC server.
It should be noted that in some countries participation in DDoS attacks is illegal, although in Russia there has not yet been a single precedent for criminal prosecution of ordinary attackers. Usually, law enforcement agencies hunt for the organizers, but they, of course, try to follow all safety measures, sit at seven proxy servers and themselves do not use such tools revealing anonymity as LOIC.