This particular version of the LOIC only performs HTTP floods (unlike the Windows client which also does SYN floods and UDP floods).Īs you can see from this JavaScript version of the LOIC, there is a message that the individual attacker can send in as part of the payload of their attack: in this case, the default message is “Somos legión!” (“We are legion!”). In an insightful tweet, cryptographer Matt Blaze (author of my pseudo random number generator), pointed out the irony of the situation:įor the attack distribution, members of Anonymous modified the JavaScript version of their tool, dubbed the Low-Orbit-Ion-Cannon (LOIC), so that not only would it attack the Justice Department, it would do so if a user simply browsed to a page containing the JavaScript itself. The hactivist group Anonymous, always ready for fight, have rallied around the seizures and launched distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against the United States Department of Justice ( and Warner Brother’s Universal Music group ( Both sites were down on Wednesday and Thursday.
This was interpreted as the modern-day sinking of the USS Merrimack in this skirmish between SOPA-backers and their opponents. On Wednesday, January 18 th, federal agencies from the US and New Zealand moved in on media-distribution site, citing unauthorized media distribution as their charge. The SOPA bill has been getting its technical teeth pulled out by the likes of Dan Kaminsky during congressional hearings but passions around the social implications of the bill are running high. It’s been a busy week for the security analysts at F5.
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