In the past,,,,, hackers needed to control one or more broiler computers in a botnet before attacking a large website,,,,,, although the total number of broiler computers could be as high as thousands,,,,, and at the same time launch DDOS attacks based on TCP SYN---ACK synchronization acknowledgment packets or UDP port flooding on the target website,,,,
However,,,,, the process of "tricking users into running remote control software such as Trojans to make them broilers" depends on the level of hackers,,,, and the time and effort spent on achieving this prerequisite can still be difficult to achieve highly mobile and efficient DDOS attacks (the same applies to hyperlinks to hanging horses or phishing websites that are implanted with Trojans).
Secondly,,,,, even if there are ready-made botnets and a large number of broilers,,,, they are controlled by different hackers with different ideas such as attack targets, methods, time periods, etc,,,,
Therefore, these attack activities are generally independent, and there is no connection,,, just a "single large-scale attack case"
This independent large-scale attack campaign ,,, ,,, inadequate in the face of targets such as the FaceBook website with 60,000 servers,,, and the firepower is not concentrated enough
So I thought ,,, if we could unite the power of hackers all over the world (including members of large-scale hacker groups and a single hacker of the Lone Ranger) ,,,,, at the same time (to the extent of "seconds")
Concentrate artillery fire on a specific server in a website server group,,,, capture one and then concentrate on the next one,,,, which can cause high-intensity,,, high-accuracy (highly targeted) ,,, and high-destructive strikes
A DDOS attack software ----- LOIC (Low Orbit Ion Cannon) published by Geeknet's SourceForge.net website programmers made this dream come true |