LOIC Download - Low Orbit Ion Cannon DDoS
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 non-technical users a way to give their bandwidth as a way of supporting a cause they agree with.
What is LOIC Low Orbit Ion Cannon
LOIC was first developed by Praetox Technologies and later released into the public domain, the source code is now freely available and you can download LOIC below as it’s now hosted on several open source platforms.
The Low Orbin Ion Cannon performs a fairly basic TCP, UDP or HTTP DoS attack and when used by multiple individuals as it normally is, a DDoS attack. The popularity came about as it has a version by Anonymous with an IRC based control channel that allows people to join voluntary botnets and attack single targets (often led by 4chan or Anonymous themselves).
As you can see in this version it has the IRC connection options known as LOIC Hivemind:
The below version actually contains the Hivemind code too, you just need to launch it with the following option:
Note: It does NOT allow remote administration of your machine, or anything like that; it is literally just control of loic itself.
Is LOIC a virus? No, it’s not – although many anti-virus software will detect as a virus (something like trojan.agent/gen-msil flooder) as it’s usually used for malicious purposes and many users have it installed without their knowledge.
An example of LOIC in use is here when hackers actually used it against Anonymous:
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