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DDoS Tool Samples
Feb 7th
Arbor put this awesome compilation of 50 DDoS tools together along with this nifty video.
Some of these tools are gamer related, but most deal with botnet herding. To see the whole list go to Arbor’s site here.
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Liberal Anonymous Hacker Cries Over Lack of Twitter
Jan 14th
Meet Vincent Kershaw, a liberal landscaper who took the advice of script kiddies from 4Chan, and launched the “Low Orbit Ion Cannon” denial of service attack pings of death against PayPal because his liberal hero Julian Assange and Wikileaks had their donations cut off for the treasonous posting of top secret materials.
Now Vinnie is complaining to a judge that he can’t exercise his freedom of speech without having access to his twitter account and IRC channels. From TSG here:
An alleged “Anonymous” member under indictment for participating in an online attack against PayPal wants a federal judge to allow him to use Twitter, arguing that he is unfairly being prohibited from participating in discussions of the 2012 election cycle, including discourse initiated by President Barack Obama, who has recently vowed to personally post tweets to the social networking site.
Kershaw, who works as a foreman at a Fort Collins landscaping firm, also wants Judge D. Lowell Jensen to allow him to use Internet Relay Chat so that he can participate in “political debate” and “political speech” in IRC chat rooms.
Along with 13 codefendants, Kershaw was named last July in an indictment charging him with conspiracy and intentional damage to a protected computer. The felony charges carry a combined maximum of 15 years in prison and a $500,000 fine.
The accused “Anonymous” members participated in a coordinated online attack against PayPal that was prompted by the firm’s suspension of Wikileaks’s account.
Kershaw and his co-conspirators don’t know each other but they collaborated by downloading a denial of service tool, using it from their home computers, and attacking a legitimate business. The attacks were easily traced and logs used by law enforcement to round-up the not-too-bright dupes who thought they were engaged in “cyber activism.” Kershaw would be down smoking dope at OccupyFortCollins if he could just read twitter to find out where it is. I wonder if the judge will grant his request?
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Yet Another Threatening Legal Email!
Oct 1st
Once again my website is being accused of all manners of legal evil-doing. This time, a band of Indians (dot not feathers) are threatening to launch DDOS attacks against my website because I once linked to a story over a year ago that details how Aiplex Software was launching distributed denial of service attacks against websites that were illegally hosting their software.
Now Jagadish of Aiplex sends me this threatening letter, accusing me of causing defamation to his company and causing his company to suffer losses due to damages and threats from hackers. Honestly, I never knew I had such awesome power by using hyperlinks to stories others have written!
From: Aiplex AntiPiracy [mailto:antipiracy@aiplex.com]
Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 4:53 AM
To: dr.jones@belch.com
Cc: Girish; Mahesh R
Subject: RequestThis has reference to the below article on your webpage, we kindly request you to deactivate the link as the article is defaming the company’s image & its prospects. It was mis-interpreted by the news agency which was blown out of proportion by some of the pirates across the globe. And subsequently we have to face damages/threats from the pirates & undergo immense losses due to their attack on our servers/websites etc.
Although, we did declare that we are not involved in any of those activities as published in the article, we still have to face the consequences for reasons unknown.
Below is the link for your reference:
http://www.belch.com/blog/category/movies/page/3/
We kindly request you to deactivate at the earliest possible please.
Appreciate your help on this matter.
Jagadish
Support Operations
Aiplex Software Pvt. Ltd.
No. 2943/E, 1st floor, Opp Maruthi Mandir,
Service Road, Vijayanagar,
Bangalore – 560 040
Ph : +91 80 23305411 / 12 / 13
Email : antipiracy@aiplex.com
Website : www.aiplex.com
To which I responded:
Please stop DDoSing me you evil bastards!
Now I get the following response from a lawyer for aiplex, who I’m sure has belch.com in the sites of his nefarious DDoS botnet:
I did clarify that we are not into such unscrupulous activity pls understand that it was a mis-interpretation by a news agency.
Anyways, it is your prerogative to keep it active or disable the link.
U have a nice weekend Patrick.
Best,
Girish Kumar N
Managing Director
Aiplex Software Pvt. Ltd.
Bangalore
Ph : +91 80 23305411 / 12 / 13
Mb : +91 98451 28280
Email : girish@aiplex.com
Website : www.aiplex.comConfidentiality & Non-Disclosure Warning: This message is intended for the exclusive use of the person or entity to which it is addressed. It may contain information that is confidential/privileged, and must be treated as such. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, copying or making a decision in reliance of its content is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message by error, please, destroy the message and kindly notify us immediately. Inappropriate/unauthorized use of the information shall be dealt with the applicable confidentiality and non-disclosure laws. Please note that while we scan all e-mails for viruses we cannot guarantee that any e-mail is virus-free and accept no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email.
I snort loudly, by the way, for every lawyer who sends out a clear text email with a retarded non disclosure warning appended to it. I can disclose anything I want, and I dare anyone to find a law that says posting something like this is a breach of any confidentiality laws.
Who is the Girish Kumar who is spending so much time emailing me? This guy pictured here. The story from theAge in Australia describes further how Girish Kumar was bragging about launching DoS attacks against websites that link to movie downloads.
Anyways, I finally responded:
Wait a minute. Are you accusing me of defamation or not? Am I causing you to suffer damages and threats because of hackers or not? Your email seemed to imply this, and my own legal team will need clarification. And of course, I expect if I don’t comply you will immediately DDOS me, right? That’s what you guys do, right? Send threats and then strong arm/abuse people to bow to your every demand to remove links? So even if you talk about piracy its as bad as committing piracy because now you are going to wreak havoc on my internets page because I linked to a story about you guys running huge DDOS operations against pirates?
Lets see what they say next! In the mean time, Girish has joined other legal scholars who have decided to send me threatening emails. At least this one’s not a clown.
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Jul 26th
When Anonymous recruited minions to act as dupes to run a simple script to send oversized packets and pings against Paypal as retaliation for dropping the ability to contribute to Wikileaks and their ongoing criminal activity, those dupes had no idea that the payloads of those packets acted as a fingerprint. PayPal turned over logs to the FBI and they are simply going to round up the top 1000 participants. And they are doing it for the lulz.
From Wired here:
It turns out there’s a method behind the FBI’s raids of suspected Anonymous members around the country. The bureau is working from list, provided by PayPal, of the 1,000 internet IP addresses responsible for the most protest traffic during Anonymous’ DDoS attacks against PayPal last December.
FBI agents served 40 search warrants in January on people suspected of hosing down PayPal during ”Operation Payback” — Anonymous’ retaliatory attack against companies who blacklisted WikiLeaks. On July 19, the feds charged the first 14 defendants under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, and raided an additional 35 suspects for evidence.
PayPal collected traffic logs on a Radware intrusion prevention system installed on its network.
On December 15, the company turned over a USB thumb drive containing the Radware reports, which documented “approximately 1,000 IP addresses that sent malicious network packets to PayPal during the DDoS attacks.” The list represented the “IP addresses that sent the largest number of packets.”
It was easy to distinguish the packets coming from the’ “Low Orbit Ion Cannon” — Anonymous’ fire-and-forget DDoS tool — because they contained strings like “wikileaks,” “goof,” and “goodnight,” the affidavit notes.
There are many other characteristics of the LOIC traffic that can easily make the attacks distinguishable as opposed to simply hitting the refresh button over and over again. Any decent IDS can detect such traffic, and if these idiots were using their home computers, they are up shit’s creek about now.
Sites like Paypal and Ebay are built to withstand most DDoS’es anyways, and the entire online mob attack only resulted in a few spotty outages. But the righteous fury of the script kiddies that wanted to participate in online “protests” will likely earn them some real time in jail, which is okay with me for supporting a criminal like Assange and his leaks of secret information. So these mob participants wanted to mete out some justice? Seems like things are getting even more justicey now.
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Cyber Lefty Jailed for Bill O’Reilly DDoS Attack
Nov 9th
An idiot hacker wannabe acquired access to a botnet to shutdown Bill O’Reilly, Ann Coulter and Rudy Giuliani’s websites back in 2007. He also shutdown his own school in a clumsy attack that ultimately led to his arrest. Why was he so stupid? Smoking Dope methinks.
From NetworkWorld here:
Mitchell Frost, a 23-year-old Bellevue, Ohio, man has been sentenced to 30 months in prison following a 2007 online crime spree in which he used a network of hacked computers to attack and knock offline websites belonging to conservative pundits Bill O’Reilly and Ann Coulter.
Mitchell Frost must also pay US$40,000 in restitution to O’Reilly and $10,000 to the University of Akron, where he was enrolled at the time of the hacking.
He used the school’s computer network to control a botnet he’d built up between August 2006 and March 2007, and launched denial of service (DOS) attacks against Rudy Giuliani’s Joinrudy2008.com website, Billoreilly.com and Anncoulter.com.
The University of Akron was disrupted too, when Frost knocked its network offline for eight-and-a-half hours while trying to DOS-attack a gaming server hosted by the university. That happened on March 14, 2007. Frost’s dorm room was raided two weeks later.
Frost set up the Discountjwh.com website earlier this year after quitting his job as a Stanley Steemer carpet cleaning technician. JWH is a form of synthetic cannabis that is legal for sale in some U.S. states, including Ohio.
Stupid lefty. Put down the bong and realize that people have free speech in this country. You can’t even get a job with Stanley Steemer these days with a college credit in Ohio. LOL
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Anonymous Versus the Kiss Army
Oct 19th
Gene Simmons seems to have invited the wrath of Anonymous after saying that musicians should be extra litigious, suing the pants off of every kid who downloads the music illegally.
From Tom’sGuide here:
KISS front man Gene Simmons made headlines recently when he said the music industry fell asleep at the wheel when it came to P2P networks and the advent of file sharing. Speaking at MIPCOM, Simmons said the right way to deal with filesharing would have been to sue the pants off of every “fresh-faced, freckle-faced college kid who downloaded material.” Simmons also said that, in order to save their brands, people needed to be ruthless and stop at nothing to make sure their content is protected.
“Make sure your brand is protected,” he said. “Make sure there are no incursions. Be litigious. Sue everybody. Take their homes, their cars. Don’t let anybody cross that line.”
Anonymous added Gene Simmons to the list of victims of Operation Payback, the DDoS attacks carried out by skiddies and music pirates against those who try to enforce their property rights. Gene said that he is in touch with the FBI and is working to get the cyber attackers jailed, which only makes Anonymous giggle.
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Bollywood Studios Use DDoS to Takedown Torrents
Sep 9th
Everyone who argues for “Net Neutrality” usually does so because they like to use torrents to download copyrighted materials. And those same people would also then declare that using DDoS attack bots should be illegal traffic on the internet.
From Techradar here:
The managing director of Aiplex Software has admitted that his company has been used to deliver DoS attacks on websites which host illegal torrents.
Aiplex Software, which is based in India, is hired by the movie industry to deliver copyright takedown notices and if these are ignored, then they bring out the big guns – hitting the site with a DDoS attack.
Aiplex Software works mainly for Bollywood studios but one of its clients Fox STAR Studios, part of 20th Century Fox.
I don’t know where they get their bots from to launch the attack. If its from a volunteer group of client systems with an agent installed, I don’t see a problem with this. If the guy is just a paid botherder using compromised systems, it should be illegal.
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(2 votes, average: 3.50 out of 6) Loading ...Joe Lieberman Can’t Run a Website
Apr 9th
Joe Lieberman was ostracized by the Democratic party because of his stance on the war. So he had to run as an independent, and his Democratic opponent, Ned Lamont, had supporters that were accused by the Lieberman campaign for DDoS’ing his website Joe2006.com.
I wrote about the scandal at the time and noted that the FBI would investigate. They did. I also warned that campaigns needed to be prepared to fend off website flooding and to not skimp on security. The FBI concluded that the website was not DoS’ed, but the campaign didn’t configure the server to handle the load.
Dumbasses. The story by the Advocate is here.
A federal investigation has concluded that U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman’s 2006 re-election campaign was to blame for the crash of its Web site the day before Connecticut’s heated Aug. 8 Democratic primary.
The FBI office in New Haven found no evidence supporting the Lieberman campaign’s allegations that supporters of primary challenger Ned Lamont of Greenwich were to blame for the Web site crash.
Lieberman, who was fighting for his political life against the anti-Iraq war candidate Lamont, implied that joe2006.com was hacked by Lamont supporters.
“The server that hosted the joe2006.com Web site failed because it was overutilized and misconfigured. There was no evidence of (an) attack,” according to the e-mail.
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