Downloads of DoS Attack Tool LOIC Spike

[Daniel]

As Anonymous initiated what it said will be the 'largest attack ever on government and music industry sites' in response to actions taken by the Justice Department against operators of file sharing site Megaupload.com, downloads of a popular DoS attack tool have spiked. While the Denial of Service tool known as the 'Low Orbit Ion Cannon' (LOIC) was developed by the 'good guys' to stress test websites, it has been a favorite tool of Anonymous to take its targets offline via denial of service attacks. Interactions seen on Twitter and IRC, made it clear that the action against MegaUpload has sparked many more individuals to get involved in the online protests and download the LOIC to take part in the attacks and has resulted in a massive spike in downloads according Slashdot sister site Sourceforge.

http://www.securityweek.com/anonymou...industry-sites
http://www.securityweek.com/download...nline-protests

Daniel Reviewed by Daniel on 21st Jan 2012. Downloads of DoS Attack Tool LOIC Spike As Anonymous initiated what it said will be the 'largest attack ever on government and music industry sites' in response to actions taken by the Justice Department against operators of file sharing site Megaupload.com, downloads of a popular DoS attack tool have spiked. While the Denial of Service tool known as the 'Low Orbit Ion Cannon' (LOIC) was developed by the 'good guys' to stress test websites, it has been a favorite tool of Anonymous to take its targets offline via denial of service Rating: 5

[Daniel]

And now script kiddies everywhere have 2 new search terms to punch into google after the word download!

[ajinkya9]

This is funny: https://github.com/NewEraCracker/LOIC

[Putin]

and to hide yourself you just use a VPN + LOIC + Someone elses Wifi.

[l0calh0st]

You can't ddos through a VPN, your VPN will get suspended immediatly.

[chaudhary9]

i thought you are giving the tool,i would like to know how to do it
i can use HSS for security

[Putin]

DDoS in my opinion isn't a pathetic script kiddie tool but infact it's a great tool for people all over the world who want to join together in protest (as demonstrated by Anonymous because of Megaupload).

When used by yourself, however, is rather pathetic.

[Putin]

Well use the Javascript version of LOIC if you don't want to download, anonymous posted PasteHTML links

paste html. co m/vie w/bl3weewxq.htm (remove spaces)
^ for educational purposes, don't visit the page unless you view it via View-Source: since it auto runs the DDoS attack.

Quite nice way to do it tbh, then you can just use simple proxies / TOR etc

Edit: the LOIC would say it's a trojan... since it's a DDoS tool...

[digimon]

i thought you are giving the tool,i would like to know how to do it
i can use HSS for security

so ure from philippines.

[ShareShiz]

Megaupload down forever.
RIAA, MPAA, CIA, FBI, etc. down for a few hours, but then back up.

DDOS is simply ineffective.

.. also.. KWWH is a webmaster board. NOT a hacking forum. dont link to hacking tools