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The use or provision of booter/stresser services for unauthorized DDoS attacks is illegal in both the United States and the United Kingdom under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and Computer Misuse Act 1990 respectively.
Low Orbit Ion Cannon (LOIC) is an open-source network stress testing and denial-of-service attack application written in C#.LOIC was initially developed by Praetox Technologies, however it was later released into the public domain [2] and is currently available on several open-source platforms.
High Orbit Ion Cannon (HOIC) is an open-source network stress testing and denial-of-service attack application designed to attack as many as 256 URLs at the same time. It was designed to replace the Low Orbit Ion Cannon which was developed by Praetox Technologies and later released into the public domain.
Seizure message placed on DDoS websites after raid Operation PowerOFF is an ongoing joint operation by the FBI , EUROPOL , the Dutch National Police Corps , German Federal Criminal Police Office , Poland Cybercrime Police and the UK National Crime Agency to close " booter/stresser " services offering DDoS attack services for hire. [ 1 ]
Stacheldraht botnet diagram showing a DDoS attack (Note this is also an example of a type of client–server model of a botnet.). A botnet is a group of Internet-connected devices, each of which runs one or more bots.
The trinoo or trin00 is a set of computer programs to conduct a DDoS attack. It is believed that trinoo networks have been set up on thousands of systems on the Internet that have been compromised by remote buffer overrun exploits. [1] The first suspected trinoo attacks are described in CERT Incident Note 99–04. [2]
Booter may refer to: Self-booting disk , software loaded directly at the bootup of a computer, without the help of an operating system a commercial denial-of-service attack service, commonly known as a booter or stresser
Doxbin was an onion service in the form of a pastebin used to post or leak (often referred to as doxing) personal data of any person of interest.. Due to the illegal nature of much of the information it published (such as social security numbers, bank routing information, and credit card information, all in plain text), it was one of many sites seized during Operation Onymous, a multinational ...