[15159] in bugtraq
New DDoS methods
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stefan Laudat)
Thu Jun 1 22:40:32 2000
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Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 23:21:17 +0300
Reply-To: Stefan Laudat <stefan@ROEDU.NET>
From: Stefan Laudat <stefan@ROEDU.NET>
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Hello,
This is supposed to be a warning. Lately, in some security
investigations about a pirate group named MayDay I've
discovered a new method of commanding a whole horde of flood bots:
IRC channels. Their master enters a channel where the bots stay idle
and sends commands via public channel messages. I can't provide
the source of such a warbot for the given moment. I congratulate
the guy that had this idea, it is more efficient to gather
your army and give commands more easily. Of course, any kid with
W.R. Stevens book near can develop such a tool, so watch out...
--
Stefan Laudat
Network and Security Engineer
RoEduNet - THE Romanian Academic Network
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