Low Orbit Ion Canon DDoS tool still going strong

06.05.2012

The fashion for home DDoS has been exploited on at least one occasion by cybercriminals. Earlier this year, in the aftermath of the arrest of Megaupload founder Kim Schmitz, someone altered the Pastebin download link for the Slowloris DDoS tool .

Thousands of people might have thought they were downloading a mighty tool for humbling 'the man' in revenge for Schmitz's incarceration when they were actually installing a keylogger.