INFO

Low Orbit Ion Cannon - An open source network stress tool, written in C#. Based on Praetox's LOIC project at https://sourceforge.net/projects/loic/

DISCLAIMER

This tool is released for educational purposes only, with the intent of helping server owners develop a "Hacker Defense" attitude. This tool comes without any warranty at all.

You may not use this software for any illegal or unethical purpose; including activities which would give rise to criminal or civil liability.

Under no event shall the Licensor be responsible for the activities, or any misdeeds, conducted by the Licensee.

HOW TO RUN ON WINDOWS

GET THE BINARIES!

Requires Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1, available at: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=ab99342f-5d1a-413d-8319-81da479ab0d7&displaylang=en

HOW TO RUN ON LINUX / MACOSX

Run debug binaries with mono. Read the wiki at https://github.com/NewEraCracker/LOIC/wiki/ for updated instructions.

HIVEMIND/HIDDEN MODE

HIVEMIND mode will connect your client to an IRC server so it can be controlled remotely. Think of this as a voluntary botnet (though do beware that your client can potentially be made to do naughty things).

Note: It does NOT allow remote administration of your machine, or anything like that; it is literally just control of loic itself.

If you want to start up in Hivemind mode, run something like this:

	LOIC.exe /hivemind irc.server.address

It will connect to irc://irc.server.adress:6667/loic

You can also specify a port and channel:

	LOIC.exe /hivemind irc.server.address 1234 #secret

It will connect to irc://irc.server.adress:1234/secret

In order to do Hivemind Hidden mode, run something like this:

	LOIC.exe /hidden /hivemind irc.server.address

It will connect to irc://irc.server.adress:6667/loic without any visible GUI.

CONTROLLING LOIC FROM IRC

As an OP, Admin or Owner, set the channel topic or send a message like the following:

	!lazor targetip=127.0.0.1 message=test_test port=80 method=tcp wait=false random=true

To start an attack, type:

	!lazor start

Or just append "start" to the END of the topic:

	!lazor targetip=127.0.0.1 message=test_test port=80 method=tcp wait=false random=true start

To reset loic's options back to its defaults:

	!lazor default

To stop an attack:

	!lazor stop

and be sure to remove "start" from the END of the topic, if it exists, too.

Take a look at source code for more details.